#dingoes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dingoes, aggregated by home.social.
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The Dingo Fence: 5,600km of wire slicing the continent in half, built to keep dingoes away from livestock. 150 years of "us vs them" — except the science increasingly says dingoes are doing ecological heavy lifting we've been trying to fence out. Maybe the fence was always the wrong question.
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‘It’s our kinship’: can #Australia learn to coexist with #dingoes?
As dingoes vanish from parts of Australia, a new documentary is calling on governments to move away from #eradication and towards solutions that benefit both #farmers and #animals
By Rosamund Brennan, 11 May 2026
Excerpt: "As Takau began looking into dingo laws, she says she found that policy was shaped largely by livestock interests, with little regard for #FirstNations cultural authority. 'There were no Aboriginal people having a say in this animal,' she says.
"In many parts of Australia, dingoes are grouped with 'wild dogs' under biosecurity laws and treated as pests or invasive animals, allowing – and in some places requiring – landholders to kill or exclude them to protect livestock.
"But Takau argues that framing ignores both their cultural significance and their ecological role. 'Dingoes keep Country healthy,' she says; they can control #overgrazing by animals like goats and #kangaroos, and reduce pressure from feral cats and foxes, which prey on #NativeWildlife.
"Through her advocacy, Takau met #AlixLivingstone, founder of #DefendTheWild, and the two began working to centre #Aboriginal voices in #DingoConservation. That work led west, through a #CulturalExchange that brought rangers from #Queensland and northern #NSW together with Aboriginal corporations on WA’s south coast to share dingo monitoring knowledge and cultural stories.
"The film and campaign grew out of that exchange. In February, Moort was screened at WA parliament, where custodians called on the state government to remove dingoes from pest classifications in biosecurity law and phase out 1080 baiting and #strychnine-laced foothold traps, which can cause prolonged, painful deaths.
"Livingstone says the campaign is not about pitting Aboriginal people against farmers but shifting support from killing programs to coexistence measures such as #BetterFencing, #GuardianAnimals and practical help for landholders. 'It’s about finding solutions for farmers that protect their interests but also maintain dingoes in the environment,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #IndigenousAustralians #SonyaTakau #Rewilding #EndangeredSpecies #Coexistence #Nature
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A new genetic test has revealed that most of the free-roaming canines in Australia, often labeled ‘wild dogs’, are predominantly dingoes. Less genetic ancestry of then introduced domesticated European dogs than thought before.
#biodiversity #dingoes #genetics #australiahttps://www.newswise.com/articles/most-australian-wild-dogs-are-predominantly-dingoes/?sc=c6313
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It turns out that there’s not always good reasons for what we do – particularly for what governments do! In fact, there are good reasons to stop doing them. Dingoes and land management, climate change, deforestation and many many more issues require us to examine the evidence – evidence we already have – and change our ways.
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Trailer: Moort Calling Dingo back to Country
#dingoes #FirstNations
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@byteseu Great article — the welfare and transparency issues around kangaroo harvesting deserve far more scrutiny. But it’s also worth noting why these culls happen. Kangaroos boom in number during good seasons, then crash hard in drought, causing overgrasing, starvation and farm conflict. Their only real natural predator, the dingo, has been driven out or rebranded as “wild dog” to justify culling — so a key ecological check is gone. Without dingoes, governments turn to quotas and commercial harvests to keep numbers down, though that raises its own serious ethical questions.
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"The cats, which can grow as large as the island's protected dingoes, have been on the island for decades and are harmful to native wildlife."
Either the dingoes are very tiny or some Mysterious Pantherine Creature has been upgrading the feral pussycats.
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Q: What's the difference between coyotes and dingoes?
A: Well, no one ever said " The coyote ate my baby".
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18-Sep-2024
Early #dingoes are related to #dogs from New Guinea and East Asia
Australian dingo has evolved over 3,000 years to become larger and leanerhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1058354 #science #evolution #australia
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New research reveals a deeper understanding of the connection between Australia’s First Peoples and #dingoes.
It attests to long-lasting relationships beyond the transient, temporary associations recorded during the colonial era. https://bit.ly/3fzhpld
#Australia #FirstNations
#environment #academia #research #academicchatter #history #histodon #nature #wildlife #science #scientist #indigenous #indigenouspeoples -
@firstdogonthemoon
I dunno about that... there's still debate on whether dingoes are dogs, but I would submit that there is enough variety among dogs that dingoes are not sufficiently different that they should be considered not dogs.Certainly I wouldn't simply make a statement that they are not dogs, without qualification.
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Dingoes Given ‘Almost-Human’ Status In Pre-Colonial Australia – Archaeological Study Finds
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/10/21/dingoes-given-almost-human-status-in-pre-colonial-australia/
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Open Letter: Public policy in South Australia regarding #dingoes https://conservationbytes.com/2023/08/28/open-letter-public-policy-in-south-australia-regarding-dingoes/
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Multiple bite wounds: #Runner attacked by pack of #dingoes on Fraser Island - Courier Mail https://apple.news/A2etkkCcaTtO8NiC0Dx7qtg | All these dingoes attacking people on Fraser Island every other day… Perhaps it’s time we stopped people going to Fraser Island, or sectioned off an area (half of the island?) just for the dingoes? | #dingo #QLD #Queensland
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Young red #kangaroos grow up quickly where hungry #dingoes lurk https://conservationbytes.com/2023/06/02/young-red-kangaroos-grow-up-quickly-where-hungry-dingoes-lurk/