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Armageddon Domestic cats are killing an estimated 230M native Australian birds, reptiles and mammals every year https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/m

• kuschku 4y ago
  The situation in australia is very different from other regions, in a previous discussion on HN we've already established that for central europe, domestic cats have a negligible effect on wildlife. (As in, orders of magnitudes below the next higher causes, which are mostly wild cats and pesticides).
  • grecy 4y ago
    > As in, orders of magnitudes below the next higher causes, which are mostly wild cats and pesticides I'm not sure if you're aware, wild cats are a direct result of domestic cats.
    • samatman 4y ago
      This is backward, the domestic cat is a descendent of the Eurasian wildcats. A substantial number of the wild cats in Europe are feral, but so what. Same cat, same niche, same place.
    • neolithicum 4y ago
      Perhaps they meant European wildcats[1], not feral cats. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat
• Ma8ee 4y ago
  And how big part of the population is that? I can’t say if that is a big or a small number without knowing the total population.
• lapinot 4y ago
  And i'm sure mining for coal, building ever expanding suburbs or driving cars doesn't contribute to killing any bird or mammal.. I'd need the figures but i'm convinced that human activities are far more dangerous for other animals than the activities of our pets.