Dingo Case Study

Section A
Should we encourage dingoes back into the natural environment?

Wiley Online library

Letnic, M., Ritchie, E. and Dickman, C., 2011. Top predators as biodiversity regulators: the dingo Canis lupus dingo as a case study. Biological Reviews, Volume 87, Issue 2, pages 390-413

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00203.x/full
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Masters, B., 2011. Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators. Ecological Management & Restoration, Volume 12, Issue 1, pages .e5-e6

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1442-8903.2011.00576.x/full
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Newsome, T., Ballard, G., Crowther, M., Dellinger, J., Fleming, P., Glen, A., Greenville, A., Johnson, C., Letnic, M., Moseby, K., Nimmo, D., Nelson, M., Read, J., Ripple, W., Ritchie, E., Shores, C., Wallach, A., Wirsing, A. and Dickman, C., 2015. Resolving the value of
and Fleming, P., 2012. Reintroducing the dingo: the risk of dingo predation to threatened vertebrates of western New South Wales. Wildlife Research, Volume 39, Issue 1, page 35

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Points:
• The use of dingo controlling techniques have been utilized largely since the 19th century to restrict the spread of dingoes into sheep grazing areas. While reintroduction of dingoes to these areas could befit threatened species through a cascading effect research shows that 22% of extinct threatened vertebrates could be negatively impacted even using a low density reintroduction approach (Allen and Fleming, 2012)

Glen, A., Dickman, C., Soule, M. and Mackey, B., 2007. Evaluating the role of the dingo as a trophic regulator in Australian ecosystems. Austral Ecology, Volume 32, issue 5, pages 492-501

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