Australia completes world's largest cat-proof fence to protect endangered marsupials
by Naaman Zhou from Environment | The Guardian on (#3QVV2)
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The world's largest cat-proof fence has been completed in central Australia, creating a 94 square kilometre sanctuary for endangered marsupials.
The 44km fence - made of 85,000 pickets, 400km of wire and 130km of netting - surrounds the Newhaven wildlife sanctuary, a former cattle station that has been bought by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.