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Many mammals in Australia face extinction: Could feral cats and foxes be to blame?

Getty Image While Australia is home to some of the most impressive wildlife, it is also home to a sad fact. Being in complete ...

Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...
Miami Herald

Trail cameras monitoring ‘feral’ cats record ‘great surprise’ in Australia. See it

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 ...
Phys.org

Feral-free zones spark small mammal boom in Australian desert

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 Conversation

These little bettongs were wiped out in South Australia a century ago. Now they’re thriving alongside foxes and feral cats

Chloe Frick's PhD was associated with the Marna Banggara Project, which receives funding from the Australian Government through its partners, Northern & Yorke Landscape Board, WWF Australia, Fauna ...