“While most Australians know there are dingoes on Fraser Island, few realise the significance of this tiny population of dingoes. Recent DNA tests have revealed the Fraser dingoes, remarkably, have remained pure and separate from dogs. It's our one chance to keep a wild dingo population into the future. Yet, with 500,000 tourists a year now visiting the island, the scene seems set for a deadly showdown between people and predator. Following the fatal dingo attack on a young boy (in 2001), 40 dingoes were culled - a quarter of the population. In the face of a tide of tourists, are we prepared to preserve the last of the true dingoes?

The Australian dingo. To some, it's a yellow hearted savage. To others, it's an icon of the Australian outback. But whatever we think of the dingo, will we regret its passing once its gone?

Dr. Darryl Jones (Biologist - Griffith University) : In a sense if you really wanted to put it in stark terms, it's the difference between the extinction of a species and places for humans to play. It's that trivial and that profound. It would be tragic if in the enlightened times that we live in now that that actually occurred in our lifetime."