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Cheers Marc. The fence is to keep predators out. Inside the fenced area -which is the Little Desert Lodge, there is a Mallee Fowl aviary, which is fenced separately too. There are big sliding gates that open up for cars when they drive onto the concrete pad and the fence is electrified too - it's a serious bit of kit.
My cousin was caretaker there a few years ago, and when I visited him, he took me to another fenced area within the Little Desert National Park and showed me a nesting Mallee Fowl there. These two areas are the only fenced areas in the park that I know of but there could be others.
Both fenced areas are relatively tiny in comparison to the Little Desert NP, you could easily cover all the tracks in a day. But then you can go through the gates into the NP itself - there's an 86km desert walk for the really keen.
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