Australia want next year 2 million cats kill

Animals Public enemy number one in Australia? Cats. Wild cats. At 2020, the Australian government, two million stray cats death. In some places there is even a price on a cats head. “Horrific”, says animal rights organisations.

What is the problem? Since the first cat - probably in the 17th century - foot on Australian soil, is the number of cats there has exploded. And even though wild cats the same species as ordinary house cats, they live in the wild and must therefore hunt to survive. And they do so with verve.

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Since their introduction by European settlers have cats, according to estimates for about 20 mammal species in Australia from extinction. And that is a particular big deal - an island nation where 80 percent of the mammals and 45 percent of the birds in the wild nowhere else in the world. the

Cats are often one of the biggest threat to Australian native species. Every day they kill about throughout the country more than a million native birds and a sloppy 1.7 million reptiles, a spokesman for the Department for Environment and for Energy to CNN. Other species that will be threatened by the cats are more vulnerable konijnrat and the buideldas.