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National feral cat plan aims to reduce harm on native species

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has proposed a national management plan aimed at reducing the detrimental impact of feral cats on endangered native species. Feral cats are estimated to kill over 6 million native animals across Australia every day. The plan hopes to better coordinate management efforts across the country and follows extensive consultation with Indigenous …

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Feral deer are the biggest pest we have destroying saplings, distributing weeds and crowding out native animals like wallabies and kangaroos.  Australia is now home to six species of deer; fallow, red, chital, hog, rusa and sambar -In 1995, there were four populations of red deer in Australia in 2007, 65 red deer populations had …

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