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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.004
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
... Dingoes have been largely eradicated in sheep lands, but are widespread and common in cattle country on the other side of the Dingo Barrier Fence. Pockets of dingoes, and/or their hybrids, survive in the Great Dividing Range and down to the coast in New South Wales and Victoria. Studies...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.041
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... the capacity of the landscape to support some fauna species. Pastoral activities have also had indirect impacts on fauna through the establishment of pastoral infrastructure such as artificial waters and barrier fences, and pest control activities. These indirect activities have caused some species to increase...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.009
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
... with wild dogs. The majority (83%) of this control was in cooperation with adjoining landholders. The most common method was ground baiting with 1080, followed by aerial baiting, trapping, shooting and barrier fencing. Most ground baits are now deployed in bait mounds to minimise non-target take. Since 1995...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (3): 432–442.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... L. 1969. Barrier fencing for vermin control in Australia. Geog. Rev. 59: 330-47. Barrier fencing for vermin control in Australia Geog. Rev. 59 330 47 Olsen, P. 1998.Australia's Pest Animals: New Solutions to Old Problems. Kangaroo Press, Pty. Ltd.: Sydney. Australia's Pest Animals...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 130–141.
Published: 17 March 2014
... favoured a route which would have divided the two major wilderness areas of the Gippsland forests in Victoria by creating a fenced impenetrable barrier to some wildlife. Planning authorities need to address the impacts of fragmentation of natural habitats by such developments. Although it is difficult...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 580–592.
Published: 09 March 2020
... to repair the deteriorating dingo barrier fences (DBF), joining them up to make a continuous barrier fence running from the Queensland coast, around the NSW borders, and across South Australia to the Great Australian Bight (Philip, 2017; Woodford, 2003). In 1960 the DBF was over 10,000km long, sweeping up...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 491–510.
Published: 25 August 2020
... for Invasive Species Solutions 2020). But funding and efforts remain largely focused on a single non-lethal measure barrier/exclusion fencing. Almost all efforts are directed at lethal options, particularly the use of poison baits because of their broadscale applicability and perceived efficiency compared...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.019
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... slashed had more deaths than stretches that had vegetated verges. Overall, more deaths were recorded on roads with a physical barrier (eg. fence, cutting) on one side of the road than in areas were there was no such barrier. More deaths were observed in rural areas than in peri-urban areas. Our results...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.023
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... effects, road mortality, disturbance from traffic movement, noise, headlights and pollutants and invasion along the clearings by weeds and fauna alien to the rainforest (including feral species). Barrier effects result from a combination of these factors. Rainforest fauna is often highly susceptible...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): fmi–fmii.
Published: 28 October 2021
... Best-practice dingo management: six lessons from K gari (Fraser Island) Linda Behrendorff 521 Two alternate states: shrub, bird and mammal assemblages differ on either side of the Dingo Barrier Fence Charlotte H. Mills, Baptiste Wijas, Christopher E. Gordon, Mitchell Lyons, Anna Feit, Aodan Wilkinson...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 332–336.
Published: 17 March 2014
... that neither a metal barrier fence nor a concrete wall was sufficient to stop tree frogs entering the road-way. Further, it has been demonstrated that frogs living adjacent to concrete box culverts under a highway avoided using them, yet traversed a 3 m high embankment to cross the road surface (Taylor...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 181–202.
Published: 01 January 2019
... in South West Natural Resource Management (NRM) area, and the location of the wild dog barrier fence. Cluster fences in western Queensland are achieving the first of their aims; to eradicate wild dogs so as to enable sheep numbers to rise. Lambing rates have increased from 20 to 90 % since fences were...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 643–653.
Published: 28 October 2021
... are removed from ecosystems, which has arguably done little to change the way dingoes are managed in Australia. In the 1999 Symposium on the dingo, Alan Newsome (2001) stated: If you want to do one single thing in western New South Wales, it is move the Dingo Fence east of the Barrier Range . Such a change...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 464–476.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., it is likely that the current density of kangaroos (Macropus spp.) and feral goats (Capra hircus) south and east of the Dingo Barrier Fence is a response to water availability more so than removal of predation. The current increasing abundance of feral goats in the Western Division of NSW (Ballard et al. 2011...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (1): 18–27.
Published: 04 October 2011
... spent millions of dollars on dingo control , building and maintaining the dingo barrier fence and more recently undertaking 1080 aerial baiting programs2 (Fleming et al. 2001). The goal of much research into dingoes has been to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of dingo control (e.g. Best et al...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 459–466.
Published: 09 October 2020
... on their properties. In addition, as an ex-sheep producer, I believe the potential for non-lethal control should be more precisely and realistically advocated by proponents of protecting Dingoes. Aside from expensive barrier fencing, guardian animals appear to be a proven method of protection, in at least some...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/9780958608527
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 511–520.
Published: 28 October 2021
.... The alternative was to buffer, put buffering in, and they had the dingo conservation areas and we worked the buffer, and that takes men. So we re very fortunate we ve got a network of trappers down there, probably better anywhere else in the state. That s our barrier fence. Our control is a buffer between...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 307–314.
Published: 14 October 2011
... disease prevalence in a buffer zone outside a fenced enclosure. This has close parallels with the strategy employed in South Africa to control foot and mouth disease, in which a barrier fence around Kruger National Park, (which borders Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where disease is endemic), is linked...