Search results for feral cat populations

Ecology Mar 27, 2024

New rapid method to predict effects of conservation actions on complex ecosystems

A new way to analyze the effects of conservation actions on complex ecosystems has cut the modeling time from 108 days to six hours, QUT statisticians have found.

Plants & Animals Mar 15, 2024

Meet the kowari: A pint-sized predator on the fast track to extinction

Australia is home to more than 350 species of native mammals, 87% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. But with 39 of these species already extinct and a further 110 listed as threatened, there's every chance many will ...

Plants & Animals Mar 4, 2024

Why move species to islands? Saving wildlife as the world changes means taking calculated risks

The eastern barred bandicoot was once found in abundance across the basalt plains of western Victoria. But habitat destruction and predation by introduced red foxes drove the species to the brink of extinction on the mainland.

Ecology Mar 1, 2024

Baiting foxes can make feral cats even more 'brazen,' study of 1.5 million forest photos shows

Foxes and cats kill about 2.6 billion mammals, birds and reptiles across Australia, every year. To save native species from extinction, we need to protect them from these introduced predators. But land managers tend to focus ...

Ecology Feb 20, 2024

New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: More Australian species than ever are struggling to survive

Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world's species of animals, birds, plants and insects—between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and mammals and just under 50% of our birds are found ...

Plants & Animals Feb 5, 2024

Giant tortoises have returned to Madagascar 600 years after they were wiped out

A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years.

Plants & Animals Jan 29, 2024

Expert explains why North American bird populations are declining

According to recent data, bird populations in North America have declined by approximately 2.9 billion birds, a loss of more than one in four birds since 1970. Experts say this bird loss will continue to grow unless changes ...

Plants & Animals Jan 17, 2024

We are losing tetrapod species at a faster rate than we are rediscovering them, researchers say

Lost species are those that have not been observed in the wild for over 10 years, despite searches to find them. Lost tetrapod species (four-limbed vertebrate animals including amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles) are ...

Plants & Animals Jan 16, 2024

There's a new hairy nuisance in Florida: Coyotes

Seminole County has long been known as Florida's epicenter for bear encounters in residential neighborhoods. But now there's a new hairy beast in town: coyotes.

Plants & Animals Jan 2, 2024

Crocs love feral pigs and quolls have a taste for rabbit—but it doesn't solve Australia's invasive species problem

Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names—wild boar, venison, and lapin—these could all be served in a Michelin-star restaurant.

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