European wildcats, thought to be extinct 50 or so years ago in the Jura mountains, have since recolonised part of their former territory. This resurgence in an area occupied by domestic cats has gone hand-in-hand with genetic ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 29, 2020
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We know feral cats are an enormous problem for wildlife—across Australia, feral cats collectively kill more than three billion animals per year.
Ecology
May 14, 2020
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Researchers from Murdoch University have revealed that even small stray and feral cats take on large and difficult-to-handle prey. And it's posing a risk to native wildlife populations.
Ecology
May 6, 2020
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Images of desperate, singed koalas in blackened landscapes have come to symbolize the damage to nature this bushfire season. Such imagery has catalyzed global concern, but the toll on biodiversity is much more pervasive.
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2020
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As the world struggles to keep tabs on biodiversity decline, conservation largely relies on a single international database to track life on Earth. It is a mammoth and impressive undertaking—but a glaring omission from ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2019
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As the world grapples with an extinction crisis, our large mammals are among the most endangered. These threatened species—rhinos, pandas, tigers, polar bears and the like—greatly influence their ecosystems. So what will ...
Archaeology
Nov 21, 2019
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On some of the Galapagos Islands where human-introduced predators of Darwin's finches were eradicated over a decade ago, the finches are still acting as though they are in danger, according to research published today in ...
Ecology
Nov 20, 2019
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Feral cats are wreaking havoc on our native wildlife, eating more than a billion animals across Australia every year. But managing feral cats and reducing their impacts on our threatened species is challenging, to say the ...
Ecology
Oct 17, 2019
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Six different colour morphs of the elusive Asiatic golden cat have been discovered in Northeast India—with the findings being hailed as "an evolutionary puzzle—as the world's greatest number of different coloured wild ...
Ecology
Jun 12, 2019
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Bilbies vs. feral cats—a Hunger Games-style experiment conducted in a South Australian desert has produced fascinating results with important implications for the conservation of our endangered species.
Ecology
May 15, 2019
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