All animals need to eat to survive, grow and reproduce. To do so, they also need to avoid being eaten. This is a big challenge for many of Australia’s native mammals, because when they search for food ...

Experts say that since the overpopulation of both affects native wildlife similarly, the country should use the same strategies in managing them. By Julia Bergin The Australia Letter is a weekly ...

Feral cats have long been suspects in killing native species reintroduced into Australian conservation areas. DNA testing of the carcasses puts felines firmly in the frame. Conservation scientists ...

A team of researchers at the University of Tasmania has determined why feral cats are such a threat to wildlife in Australia. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group ...

A feral cat with two hopping mice caught on CCTV in Arid Zone Reserve, South Australia Credit: UNSW Sydney/Katherine Moseby A feral cat with two hopping mice caught on CCTV in Arid Zone Reserve, South ...

The Federal Government has invested over four million Australian dollars ($2.6 million) in reducing the population. Fantasy Football: 1 player to watch from each team for every Week 17 game in the ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies." The role of these "enemies" ...

Human Ecology, Vol. 49, No. 6, Special Issue: Canid-Human Interactions: Past and Present (DECEMBER 2021), pp. 843-857 (15 pages) Landholder support and participation is essential to the success of ...

Trail cameras monitoring “feral” cats at Bowra Sanctuary recorded the park’s first sighting of a brushtail possum in a decade, photos show. Photo from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy Scientists in ...

Conservation scientists from UNSW Sydney have used DNA technology to identify feral cats as the primary predators responsible for the deaths of reintroduced native animals at two conservation sites in ...