Dingo Coexistence

05/06/2026

There has been considerable misinformation and wilful ignorance being perpetuated by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions as part of their National Wild Dog Action Plan about recent dingo DNA research. They have been deliberately attempting to weaponise recent research findings to place pressure on government to scrap any scant protection for dingoes and increase lethal control.

Here are the facts as reported by the various leading DNA scientists / First Nations and others.

In May 2026 a team of Australian scientists sent a letter (see below to read it) to Environment and Agriculture Ministers in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, outlining recent advances in dingo genomics and their implications for policy and management.T...

28/05/2026

The Australian Dingo Foundation has been consistently and tirelessly educating the public about dingoes for two decades. Don't miss this dingo feature story coming soon to Channel 9's popular travel show Postcards.

28/05/2026

Dingoes and quolls have coexisted in a symbiotic relationship on the Australian mainland for thousands of years. To find out more about Australia's amazing quolls, follow the wonderful work of Alberto Vale & the Australian Quoll Conservancy.

25/05/2026

Getting to know dingoes: Vlad Keča runs a program for at-risk kids, including interacting with rescued dingoes - with surprising parallels.00:00 Dingo sanctu...

24/05/2026

Please get behind this wonderful organisation, with a long and successful history of dingo advocacy.

19/05/2026

Great work by Big Desert Dingo Research in calling out the (tax payer funded) propaganda spread by the vested interests of Peter Starr Victorian Farmers Federation & Greg Mifsud Centre for Invasive Species Solutions under their National Wild Dog Action Plan .

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18/05/2026

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Groundbreaking new archaeological evidence is reshaping what we know about the relationship between dingoes and First Nations people — and it tells a story of deep love, respect and kinship.

Researchers investigating a ~1,000-year-old dingo burial site along the Baaka (Darling River) on Barkindji Country discovered something never before documented anywhere in the world: a possible ongoing "feeding ritual", where generations of people continued adding river mussel shells to the burial site for hundreds of years after the dingo was laid to rest.

This was not a "pest animal". This was not a disposable creature. This was a being remembered, honoured and kept connected to Country long after death.

Even more moving, the male dingo had suffered severe injuries — broken ribs and a broken leg, likely from hunting kangaroos — yet he survived. Researchers believe he had been cared for and nursed back to health by the community. That alone speaks volumes about the bond that existed.

Barkindji custodians describe the ongoing shell additions as a way of maintaining connection and respecting ancestors. Dingoes were companions, hunting partners, family members and cultural beings woven into life on Country. Some Barkindji people still carry dingo as a totem today, despite dingoes being regionally exterminated from that area.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/19/dingo-burial-site-first-nations-people-relationship-to-animals

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Never documented archaeologically before, evidence points to First Nations people caring for and nursing the animal

17/05/2026

The Dingo 2030 Network has now loaded 1080 ground baiting maps for Victoria ⬇️

16/05/2026

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Note: This research was funded by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions that run the National Wild Dog Action Plan. Their aim with this research was an attempt to discredit the groundbreaking work of Dr Kylie Cairns Dingo Genetics Research instead their findings absolutely support her findings:

✔️ Dingoes are a genetically distinct wild Canid species.
✔️ They do not form one homogeneous population - there are separate evolutionary lineages of dingoes across mainland Australia that have been shaped by nature over thousands of years.
✔️ Dingoes retain their genetic distinctiveness inspite of (potentially) some small historic fragments of domestic dog ancestry.
✔️ Given that are a distinct native species and retain their genetic distinction, they need to be correctly labelled as and not with 'future efforts to manage these animals should be done by region, working alongside First Nations communities.'

Ancient and modern dingo DNA reveals eight genetically distinct groups of dingoes – and the limited influence of domestic dog genes.