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MELINDA BROWNING, AUSTRALIAN DINGO FOUNDATION: Dingo es are very wary of humans - aloof, independent, but curious and intelligent. Very elusive, yeah.
Genetic testing shows they are pure dingoes, with dangerous levels of in-breeding and the Victorian Government says there are as few as 40 left.MELINDA BROWNING: To know that we have this special population on the brink of extinction, that has been driven to the brink of extinction by our actions as humans, is heartbreaking.
MELINDA BROWNING: To say we were elated was an understatement. We were crying into our champagne and dancing around the lounge rooms. ELLA ARCHIBALD-BINGE: The state government has allocated about half a million dollars to help farmers find other ways to protect their sheep such as building exclusion fences like this one, which is taller and stronger than regular fences.
Outside of the Big Desert, trapping, shooting and poison baiting remains legal on or near farmland in Victoria. ELLA ARCHIBALD-BINGE: Nationally, 85 per cent of the animals tested were pure dingoes with no, or very little, dog ancestry.KYLIE CAIRNS: It's really brought to the forefront the fact that the animal that we're killing with lethal control is a native animal and they should be managed as a native animal across all states in Australia.
GREG MIFSUD, NATIONAL WILD DOG ACTION PLAN: We're not trying to eradicate dingoes or wild dogs from the continent. We're just trying to manage their numbers and populations so that there's less that cause problems.GREG MIFSUD: From a management perspective, they both cause the impacts, it really doesn't matter whether it's a dingo or a wild dog.
ELLA ARCHIBALD-BINGE: Dingo advocate Sonya Takau is part of a new advisory body helping farmers find different ways to protect their livestock.ELLA ARCHIBALD-BINGE: Today, she’s meeting the owners of Badjuballa Station in Far North Queensland’s cattle country in the shadow of Dingo Mountain.
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