Traditional methods based on trap, adopt or euthanise have failed to control cat numbers. An eight-year trial of a more supportive community cat desexing program has been a resounding success.
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Most Australians don’t need to be persuaded of the benefits of rules that require owners to stop their pet cats roaming outside their properties. Only 8% of those surveyed were against this policy.
Each year, hungry plant-eating animals do billions of dollars of damage to valuable plants. We need prevention methods that don’t involve killing them.
Woodland caribou populations are on the decline because human activity changes their habitat and exposes them to predation by wolves. But changing wolves’ hunting habits may protect the caribou.
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Adjunct Professor; Head, Applied Conservation Macro Ecology Lab, University of Victoria
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology, University of Sydney
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Jaana Dielenberg is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Emeritus Professor of Companion Animal Health, The University of Queensland
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