Can Australia save the dingo from extinction?
By John Platt
Jul 26, 2010 04:45 PM Where did the Australian dingo go? Once present throughout that country, the feared predator (Canis lupus dingo) in its current form is on its way to extinction as it is either killed or breeds and hybridizes with domesticated dogs. With the disappearance of the purebred dingo comes the loss of an important part of the region’s ecosystem as well as a greater chance of environmental destruction by invasive species such as foxes and feral cats.
Now the Australian state of Victoria is taking baby steps toward preserving the dingo. Eighty percent of the dingoes there are hybrids, and pure dingoes exist in only two remote, mountainous areas. Back in 2008 the Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment declared the dingo a threatened species and has now, finally, taken the first steps toward preventing the dingo’s extinction by planning to set aside public land for dingo preservation. (No land has actually been set aside yet, however.) Part of the problem is that so many Australians, to put it mildly, hate the dingo. Farmers see the predator as a pest and threat to livestock. There is also a history of dingo attacks on humans, typified by the oft-quoted line spoken by Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark, “the dingo ate my baby.” But dingo attacks on humans are rare, and it might be time to reconsider just how much of a problem dingoes really present to farmers. …
Except Meryl says "the dingo's got my baby."
Yes we can if the people of Australia and the rest of the world suport clubs like ours, we breed pure bred dingoes the only dingoes that are pure out side of the zoo's. all dingoes in teh club are dna checked, but we need you the people of the world to write to our Australian goverment to get them to release dingoes from clubs like ours back into the wild, we also need dingoes to be more protected from our Astralian farmers, so please don't just read this write to the Australian goverment before there are np pure bred dingoes left. also could you please vivt my blog and leave your suport there in the form of a commenet.
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