Improving Drought Resilience through Cluster Fencing

Cluster fences involves collaborative efforts by private landholders and governments to erect exclusion fences around a number of properties primarily to prevent wild dog and dingo attacks on livestock, although some nature reserves may also be included. This project will report on the environmental impacts arising from growers who eradicate wild dogs and control total grazing pressure by introducing restorative land and grazing management, involving pasture resting between grazing periods. Specifically, this project will work with nine best-practice wool growers across three “clusters” and use their properties as case study sites to enable comprehensive data collection.