The Basics of Wildlife Friendly Fencing
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Standard fencing, particularly certain wire types and low set bottom wires, can pose a genuine hazard to wildlife attempting to pass through or under it, sometimes causing injury or preventing movement entirely for species that would otherwise move freely across a landscape between one patch of habitat and another nearby.
Wildlife friendly fencing designs address this by adjusting wire spacing, height and visibility, for instance raising the bottom wire enough for smaller animals to pass beneath safely, or using a plain top wire rather than barbed wire at the height where larger animals like kangaroos or deer are most likely to jump.
These adjustments generally cost little more than standard fencing while still containing livestock effectively, making wildlife friendly fencing a genuinely practical compromise for rural landholders who want to maintain working farm boundaries without unnecessarily blocking or injuring the wildlife that shares the same broader landscape around their property.