New Report: Cats in Australia Kill Two Billion Animals Every Year, Government Respond to the Crisis

A recent report from the federal parliament proposes registration of cats, nighttime regulations, and spaying.
Christine Ellis does not like untamed cats. As an ancient Warlpiri ranger in central Australia's Great Sandy desert at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, she is aware of what they can do to local animals in Australia.

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Untamed Cats Kills Over a Dozen Species  

In just more than 230 years since they have been introduced to the continent, untamed cats have killed over a dozen species that existed near Ellis's people for centuries and driven others to the edge of extinction. According to what she said: "There are no stories without cats."
Cats came to Australia with the first set of settlers in Europe in 1788.

In a period of 70 years, cats had expanded across the country; cats now live in 99.9 percent of the total land area in Australia. Every year on average, untamed cats of an estimated 2.8 million wander the continent, but as reported by a conservation biologist, John Woinarski from Charles Darwin University and co-author of the Australian book Cats: "Companion & Killer," this estimated number can rise up to 5.6 million in periods of heavy rainfall.

With its ecosystems not more than 23, Newhaven, a place in northwest Australia that is tierce the size of the United States Yellowstone National Park - encloses 1,023 square miles of sand dunes, salt lakes, and red-rock cliffs. At the heart of the sanctuary is a walled, 36-square-mile reserve from the place where Ellis and her co-workers from the Wildlife Conservancy in Australia take out untamed cats.

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Runaway Pet Cats 

Runaway pet cats or the offspring of cats that entered Australia embarked on the felon transportation ships to form a place where local species could get back.

Woinarski made it known that biodiversity is special and distinctive in Australia, falsified over millions of years in confinement. Many species of animal that lasted out have been lessened to a minute portion of their former population size and range, are now endangered, and continue to reduce. Left without proper management, cats won't stop eating their way through the rest of the animals in Australia.

The Newhaven's fence was finished in March 2018 and the cage, which is an area built to keep animals that are not wanted out, was acknowledged untamed-predator-free the year after. In the fence, endangered and recovered local species are making a comeback.

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Major Drivers for the Extinction of Mammals 

Newhaven is  leading in the fight to protect its local animals from being preyed on by cats in Australia. With time going for many animals, this February, the federal parliament in Australia published a report that affirmed that cats were the major drivers for the extinction of mammals in the country.

The report stressed that Australia is leading the world with 34 of such species gone in extinction and another 74 land species of mammal under threat. 
Untamed cats are not the only obstacle. The parliamentary report also discovered that almost 3.8 million pet cats in Australia eliminate up to 390 million animals annually. 

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