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> Remarkably, the longest fence in the world was built and is maintained for a single purpose: to protect Australia’s pastoral heartlands from the depredations of a canine.

I thought it was built to keep rabbits out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence

There is an excellent book about this. 'The New Wild' by Fred Pearce is well worth a read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716462-the-new-wild

We shouldn't introduce species deliberately in new places, but in many places species have taken off and should be accepted.

The exclusion fence has unfortunately suffered extensive damage in the Western Queensland flooding this week, and will likely result in wild dog incursions in multiple places.