The Fraser dingoes are dying off and it’s the fault of the same people that have overfished sharks and whales, have reduced populations of almost all the animals in the world except for the ones they’ve introduced to Australia where they run rampant (rabbits and cane toads), who have reduced the world’s oldest civilization- the once-proud Aborigines- to a band of alcoholic roadside squatters, and who have caused the Great Barrier Reef to start dying off due to raised water temperatures. These people are, of course, the Chinese. Not really, it’s actually people in general. They come to Fraser and feed the dingoes and then wonder why the dogs start getting aggressive towards people when they don’t get food.
A couple of years ago, a couple of dingoes killed a nine year old boy and instead of blaming the parents who let him wander around alone, or cutting back the number of visitors to Fraser, the Queensland government decided to cull the dingoes. Needless to say people went ballistic.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough. The entire population of the Fraser Island dingoes is down to 100 dogs. People still feed the dingoes (including some tools in Landcruiser with the Queensland license plate number 779 EDE) and continue to be generally stupid on Fraser. The dingoes on Fraser are the purest in Australia because they haven’t been cross-bred with domestic dogs. Fraser is big enough that the dogs can breed without inbreeding. But if people continue to do stupid things around thee animals and if the government continues to make poor policy decisions, then they’ll eventually be gone. -jp
