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...Since then, the animal that figures in Aboriginal Dreaming stories has been hunted and reviled as a killer of stock and even children. But as baiting programs and hybridization with feral domestic dogs pull down pure dingo numbers, there are growing warnings that the breed risks extinction in the wild, perhaps in just a few decades...
...store dingo samples in its gene bank alongside those from endangered species like the northern hairy-nosed wombat and the Sumatran tiger. Monash's Norwood Animal Conservation Group, which oversees the program, needs $A10,000 in start-up funding to gather reproductive and tissue samples from perhaps 100 wild and captive dingoes as "an insurance policy" against extinction, says project director Shae Cox. The funding offers aren't rolling in, but Cox senses public opinion is starting to shift in favor of the animals' long-term survival. While storing semen for artificial insemination projects, the team will also research reproductive...
...preferable to hybrids, which tend to be bigger, more aggressive and breed twice a year, rather than the dingo's one annual litter. On his 5,700-sq.-km Napperby Station outside Alice Springs, in a bad year cattleman Roy Chisholm can lose 1% of his calves to wild dogs. Hybrids and dogs from the local Aboriginal community are often the problem - much more so than dingoes. "Hybrids aren't tuned into the natural environment like dingoes are, and they're not prepared to eat lizards and grasshoppers like a dingo will," says Chisholm. The Alice Springs chairman...
...feasibility study into building a dingo barrier fence similar to the dog fence which runs from Queensland to South Australia. Though exclusion fences are notoriously costly to maintain, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says pastoralists in the state's northwest and eastern Goldfields region are desperate to combat wild dogs hunting "in plague proportions." There, too, the problem is mixed breeds - Campbell says pastoralists haven't complained about dingoes to him - devastating stock and wildlife. The minister says pest hybrids should be treated differently to native animals - and believes it would be "an absolute tragedy" if the dingo disappeared from...
...After 25 years on the air, Ted Koppel hosted his final episode of Nightline. Immediately after the show, he drove upstate and released his hair into the wild...