An
ecosystem needs to maintain bio diversity to stay healthy. The dingo
is part of the Australian ecosystem.
In areas of the mainland (Australia) where the dingo
has been eradicated due to rural baiting practices the ecosystem has started
to collapse, and many more animals are faced with immanent extinction.
“Reintroducing
more dingoes to Australia would help control the population of the
nuisance pests and restore some of the country's dwindling native species
populations. In places
where dingoes are rare or absent... 50 per cent or more of ground living
mammals have vanished."
Professor Chris Johnson from the school of Marine & Tropical Biology at
James Cook University.
Like their mainland siblings the Fraser Island dingoes
too are part of an ecological balance. If the population is let (or forced)
to dwindle further, the consequences could very well be catastrophic
for many more species on Fraser Island.
The dingo needs to
become a protected species, and its 'pest' status
revoked. |