Using birth control to manage rat infestations is a temporary and inefficient approach. Any successful rat management programs would require multiple collaborative approaches.
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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.
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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Professor of Behavioural Ecology, University of Sydney
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Clinical Academic, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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