It's hard at the top...The war on dingoes

The war on dingoes continues to rage, compromising their genetic strain, causing many dingo subspecies to fall extinct, and dooming much of Australia’s biodiversity. If the dingo was entirely eliminated, then prey species would doubtlessly suffer. The dingo is not only a keystone species protecting mammal biodiversity in Australia, but it is the most significant constraint on the harmful potential of exotic predators. The notion that we must so thoroughly regulate and intervene in the wild is highly alarming, and the devastating impact it has on natural ecosystems is already being felt . Dingoes actually aid the survival of smaller, more vulnerable species, and their presence is actually associated with the persistence of native animals. By suppressing populations of introduced predators and larger carnivores, the dingo reduces the threat to native species. Not surprisingly areas where dingoes had been removed, most of the native mammal extinctions have occurred...