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Two large reasons for the unnatural death of birds: Windows and feral cats [0]. In Australia, the government is hunting down feral cats to protect their biodive
by KETpXDDzR 5y ago
Two large reasons for the unnatural death of birds: Windows and feral cats [0]. In Australia, the government is hunting down feral cats to protect their biodiversity [1].
The cat lobby is very strong in many countries, including the US. Because of that, they stopped killing feral cats and use ineffective[2] techniques like TNR (trap, neuter, release). I can understand the fans of cats, they are cute lovely animals. And I think voting against killing feral cats is caused by a pseudo-moral of "killing cats is bad" and "cats are more valuable to me than wild animals". In the end, feral cats are an invasive species in most parts of the world. And feral cats surely don't have a nice life in comparison to the live of a house cat.
[0] https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mortality/ https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mor...
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/australias-cats-kill-two-billion-animals-annually-180977235/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/australias-cat...
[2] https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Evidence-Against-TNR.pdf https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Evidence...