Cats are cute in the eyes of humans, but they are really disasteratic for small animals. In particular, wild domestic cats are unscrupulously killing any small animal that can be seen. In Australia, for example, wild domestic cats are the kings of the wilderness, "killing" 2 billion wild animals a year, directly leading to the extinction of 22 species of mammals.
According to research by the Australian Department of the Environment, local cats kill about 1.3 million birds, 1.8 million reptiles and 3.1 million mammals a day, and you read that right, it is indeed every day, which is still a conservative estimate. During the rainy season, birds tend to fly low, which gives wildcats an opportunity to catch birds on rainy days.
Australia originally did not have cats, in the 18th century by European colonists brought to Australia, domestic cats were abandoned and released, became a local invasive species, now 99.8% of the australian continent can see the figure of feral domestic cats.
According to statistics, there are now about 2 million to 6 million wild cats in the whole of Australia, and there are 4 million domestic cats.
Sarah Legg of the University of Queensland's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences believes that domestic cats are more of a threat to animals than wildcats, with a feral cat killing an average of 740 animals a year, and a single domestic cat killing 75 animals a year, and since there are about 60 cats per square kilometre in cities, which is more dense than in the wild, domestic cats are more terrifying than feral cats in terms of fatality rate per square kilometre. Small animals struggling to survive in cities face more dangers than small animals in the wild.
To control the feral cat population, the local animal protection department plans to eliminate 2 million cats, including domestic and feral cats, by 2020. Agencies have thrown hundreds of square kilometres of land through aircraft, which contains a special compound that is deadly to cats and other non-native predators, but does not harm native Australian animals that are already resistant to poison.
Australian folk cat hunters
Although the cat extermination campaign has been questioned and opposed by many cat lovers, in Australia, the work has been going on for 10 years. At present, cats are identified as a serious threat to 35 species of birds, 36 species of mammals, 7 species of reptiles and 3 species of amphibians, for which the elimination of feral cats is urgent.
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