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Wildlife-safe fences and dams

Job sheets for fences and dams that work for your stock and for the wildlife that shares your block: flying-foxes, wombats, frogs and birds.

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Painted illustration of a flying-fox hanging in a flowering gum tree above a plain wire fence with white tape on the top strand

Wildlife

What should replace barbed wire where flying-foxes feed?

Swap the top barbed strand

6 min read

Painted illustration of a wombat pushing through a small mesh flap gate at the bottom of a farm fence

Wildlife

How do you build a fence with a wombat gate?

Hang a gate in the wombat hole

6 min read

Painted illustration of a fenced farm dam with reeds, shrubs, a log, a frog and ducks, with sheep grazing outside the fence

Wildlife

How do you turn a farm dam into a source of life?

Fence and plant the dam

6 min read