Backlash as Australia kills dingoes after backpacker deathListen to this articleDingoes have been implicated in the death of a young Canadian woman on the Australian island of K'gari. (Photo: AFP)SYDNEY — Australian authorities have sparked a backlash by killing a group of dingoes linked to the death of a young Canadian woman on an island in the country's east. The euthanisation programme has stirred debate about how to manage the local population of dingoes, a sandy-coloured canine believed to have first arrived in Australia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. They're just being wild animals, doing wild things," Crowther told Agence France-Presse (AFP). News of the dingoes' euthanisation was "heart-wrenching", he told Australian media, adding however that he recognised it may be necessary for safety because of the pack's behaviour.
