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Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world that are rarely measured

  • Written by Alex McInturff, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Barbara
imageAustralia's dingo fences, built to protect livestock from wild dogs, stretch for thousands of kilometers.Marian Deschain/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

What is the most common form of human infrastructure in the world? It may well be the fence. Recent estimates suggest that the total length of all fencing around the globe is 10 times greater than the total...

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