The episode explores the world’s longest fence — Australia’s 5,500-kilometer Dingo Barrier Fence — built to protect sheep from dingoes, and reveals how this seemingly simple structure has reshaped Australia’s ecology, politics, and cultural relationship with one of its most misunderstood
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