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DOI	10.1007/s42977-021-00106-z
	The Dingo Barrier Fence: Presenting the case to decommission the world's longest environmental barrier in the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Reconstruction 2021-2030
	Philip, Justine
通讯作者	Philip, J (corresponding author), Pont Melvez, Bretagne, France.
来源期刊	BIOLOGIA FUTURA
ISSN	2676-8615
EISSN	2676-8607
出版年	2021-11
英文摘要	The longest environmental barrier in the world is Australia's 5614 km Dingo Barrier Fence. The structure was completed in the 1950s, designed to facilitate the eradication of the country's apex predator and cultural keystone species the dingo (Canis dingo) from sheep (Ovis aries) grazing areas to the south-east of the continent. The fence and its support systems now present an immense obstacle to ecological restoration in Australia's arid zone, preventing traditional management practices, and are hazardous to all terrestrial wildlife in the immediate vicinity. The barrier presents a worst-case scenario for animal-generated seed dispersal patterns over the wider region and limits genetic transfer. Plummeting biodiversity inside the fence line and increasing pressures of climate change have left this region highly vulnerable to ecological collapse. Concurrently, sheep numbers have contracted over 75% in the arid zone since 1991, due to market forces and climate change, while demand for ethically produced goods such as predator-friendly meat production and organic produce is increasing. Decommissioning the Dingo Barrier Fence, moving the stock protection zone south and diversifying land use would not impact significantly on the current livestock production. It offers a sound economic alternative for the region, with the potential for regeneration of 82 million hectares of land, a scale encouraged for inclusion in the global initiative the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Reconstruction (2021-2030). This would restore connectivity across the region, including vital access to the waters of the Murray Darling Basin. This would provide mitigation for the effects of climate change, new markets in organic and sustainable industries, and support ecological and cultural renewal.
英文关键词	Dingo Barrier Fence Ecosystem reconstruction Animal welfare Biodiversity Sheep Aboriginal culture
类型	Review ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000721426000001
WOS关键词	WESTERN DIVISION ; AUSTRALIA ; PREDATOR ; BIODIVERSITY ; EXTINCTION ; COMMUNITIES ; KANGAROOS ; MORTALITY ; HISTORY ; MAMMALS
WOS类目	Biology
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/374615
作者单位	[Philip, Justine] Pont Melvez, Bretagne, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Philip, Justine. The Dingo Barrier Fence: Presenting the case to decommission the world's longest environmental barrier in the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Reconstruction 2021-2030[J],2021.
APA	Philip, Justine.(2021).The Dingo Barrier Fence: Presenting the case to decommission the world's longest environmental barrier in the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Reconstruction 2021-2030.BIOLOGIA FUTURA.
MLA	Philip, Justine."The Dingo Barrier Fence: Presenting the case to decommission the world's longest environmental barrier in the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Reconstruction 2021-2030".BIOLOGIA FUTURA (2021).

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