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Dingoes could help solve Australia’s extinction crisis — if only people would let them

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Anthropocene

Publication Date
2019-02-06

The continent of Australia has the world’s highest extinction rate; dozens of animal species are critically endangered, and hundreds more are declining. A primary culprit is predation by historically non-native cats and foxes, and killing those animals is central to conservation efforts — but there’s another solution: allowing dingoes, the continent’s apex predator, to fulfill their ecological role.

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http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2019/02/dingo-ecology/