COMING IN JANUARY 2010!
The Dingo Consortium serves as a central clearinghouse for scientists, researchers, authors, non-profit organizations, journalists, educators, and impassioned individuals who are actively engaged in Dingo Conservation. Its purpose is to share accurate and politically expedient information about the grave plight of Australia's Dingo.
The mission of the Consortium is to bring together the information necessary to combat the prevailing ignorance about the Dingo and its senseless destruction at the hands of the pastoral industry and supporting government agencies.
In that regard it seeks to (1) challenge current scientific opinion on Dingo behavior and its wholesale eradication; (2) effect removal of the Dingo from the Introduced Feral List; and (3) restore the Dingo to its rightful role as the top order terrestrial predator on the Australian mainland.
Consortium Fellows support the view that the proliferation of mesopredators such as introduced cats and foxes is directly related to the devastation of Australia's native wildlife species. By maintaining the Dingo in its rightful role as apex predator, it is felt that a natural balance can be restored to Australian ecosystems that, in turn, will save mammalian fauna from extinction.
It is proposed that this restoration of balance will help ameliorate significant livestock losses as well.
You will find here, then, urgent strategies for change for this old and fragile continent and home of Canis lupus dingo - a species that has graced the Australian landscape for at least 4,000 years.
To use Adam O'Neill's words, "A more faithful guardian of the environment would be hard to find."
Submissions:
Contact us if you have pertinent articles and links or resources to submit that will help further the Dingo's cause.