The dingo is the guardian

The dingo is the guardian of Australia's unique fauna and flora. Research has demonstrated that dingoes have a profound influence on ecosystem structure. Dingoes suppress mesopredators (foxes & cats) and herbivores (rabbits, kangaroos, emus, goats & pigs), which enables small mammals to increase in abundance. Where predator control is relaxed vegetation cover and diversity also increase. The ecological influence of dingoes is so important in fact, that many native species can only persist where dingoes are present. Because dingoes are socially complex, they are particularly sensitive to lethal control. Dingoes are deeply social and intelligent beings. They care for each other, hunt together, maintain territories and traditions, and their ecological influence is tightly linked with their pack structure. To recover Australia's wilderness, predator-control practises must be eliminated entirely, and dingoes given full protection. It is the pack that is the Apex Predator, not the individual dingo. Many ecologists now recognise that the disruption of dingo populations has been the ultimate driving force of extinction and land degradation in Australia. The wilderness does recover when dingo populations are restored.