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The purpose of the Dog Fence Act 1946 is to prevent wild dogs entering into the pastoral and agricultural areas south of the dog-proof fence. The dingo is listed as a "wild dog" under this act, and landowners are required to maintain the fence and destroy any wild dog within the vicinity of the fence by shooting, trapping or baiting.
At this point, it connects with the South Australian Border Fence, which runs for 257 km (160 mi) southwards along the border with New South Wales, [9] these two sections are managed by the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board. [10] It then joins a section known as the Dog Fence in South Australia, which is 2,225 km (1,383 mi) long. [1]
In the third edition of Mammal Species of the World published in 2005, the mammalogist W. Christopher Wozencraft listed under the wolf Canis lupus its wild subspecies, and proposed two additional subspecies: "familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 [domestic dog]" and "dingo Meyer, 1793 [domestic dog]", with the comment "Includes the domestic dog as a ...
Wild dog is a term broadly applied to canines that are either not domesticated or not owned. Wild dog may also refer to: Feral dog, domestic dogs living as wild animals; Dingo, or Australian wild dog, a free-ranging dog found in Australia; African wild dog, or African hunting dog, wild canine of Africa; Asiatic wild dog, or dhole, wild canine ...
Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily distributed throughout the Western Plateau and interior lowlands of the country, covering areas from South West Queensland, Far West region of New South Wales, Sunraysia in Victoria and Spencer Gulf in South Australia to the Barkly Tableland in Northern Territory and the ...
An unlikely four-legged hero is being credited with saving hundreds of animals from the raging Australian wildfires last week.. On New Year's Eve, Stephen Hill arrived at the farm where he works ...
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep, working her way back from a drug suspension, and Hall of Famer Lleyton Hewitt's 16-year-old son Cruz were among the players awarded wild-card entries ...
Marsupials probably existed in Australia at least from the early Paleocene 3] although the earliest found undoubted fossils of Australian marsupials are from the late Oligocene 3] [4] The indisputable remains of Australian placental mammals started from the Miocene, when Australia moved closer to Indonesia.