How many dingoes are left in Australia?

Answer 1

Dingoes are wild dogs that live in many parts of Australia. An accurate count is difficult, as many feral domestic dogs live in the same areas and interbreed with the dingoes. Dingoes are listed as vulnerable, but not endangered. However, some estimates say there are only a few hundred pure dingoes left, while others say there are tens of thousands of them.

Answer 2

It depends on the species. Initially, there were 11 species of bandicoot in Australia. Three are now extinct, and another three species are endangered.

Some species of bandicoot are under no major threat. However, the Eastern Barred bandicoot, which is quite common in Tasmania, was at one time reduced to a population of just 5 on the mainland. At this point, the mainland Eastern Barred bandicoot was declared functionally extinct, but an intense captive breeding programme has restored that figure to 2000 now.

Figures for the Southern brown bandicoot, the Longnosed bandicoot and the Western barred bandicoot are also in decline. Exact figures are not available.