Interesting Global [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Australia wants to force cats to stay inside or give them a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals they are a threat to the country's biodiversity

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Australia wants to force cats to stay inside or give them a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals they are a threat to the country's biodiversity

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Interesting Global [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Cats are present in 99.9% of all land in Australia and kill about two billion other animals a year. That makes them Australia's most invasive species.

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Cute response, but cats have cause the extinction of dozens of local animal species in countries around the world
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  Could you list some examples? I’m curious to know more.
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    https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/

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