The vast arid wilderness of the Australian outback is often perceived as a landscape of red earth and low-growing vegetation.

Australia’s dingo fence is an internationally renowned mega-structure. Stretching more than 5,600 kilometres, it was completed in the 1950s to keep sheep safe from dingoes. But it also inadvertently ...

In the early 1900s, Australia began to build a fence that now stretches for some 3480 miles across the states of South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland. It is called the “Dog Fence” and its ...

New research shows that young red kangaroos protected by the dingo-proof fence in Australia take more time to grow up than their counterparts on the other side, who quickly outgrow the risk of being a ...

Extermination of dingoes and the consequent loss of small mammals - not just overgrazing by livestock - have led to a rapid spread of woody shrubs across semi-arid Australia, a new study shows.

A comparison of conditions in the outback on either side of Australia's dingo fence has revealed that extermination of these apex predators not only affects the abundance of other animals and plants, ...

If good fences make good neighbors, then humans and dingoes, the feral dogs of the Australian outback, must be the best neighbors of all. Most fences in our experience can be built over a weekend, or ...

Extermination of dingoes and the consequent loss of small mammals -- not just overgrazing by livestock -- have led to a rapid spread of woody weed shrubs across semi-arid Australia, a new study shows.

A comparison of conditions in the outback on either side of Australia's dingo fence has revealed that extermination of these apex predators not only affects the abundance of other animals and plants, ...