Work is under way to bridge a 32km gap in the NSW dog fence - but ecologists say it should be taken down

The 5,614km fence runs from South Australia to southern Queensland and was built to keep dingoes out, but ecologists say it's 'making things worse' for semi-arid ecosystemsSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityIn the far-western reaches of New South Wales, the world's longest fence tracks through the red dirt making a cartographically straight path along state borders.The 5,614km fence starts in South Australia, where it's called the Dog Fence, and joins the NSW border near Broken Hill, where it becomes that state's responsibility and is called the Wild Dog Fence. At Cameron Corner it veers north into Queensland and becomes the Wild Dog Barrier Fence. It follows the route set out in the 1940s by the old dingo fence, used to keep dingoes out of remote grazing land to the west and prime agricultural country in Queensland's Darling Downs. Continue reading...