Feral cats - should we let them live? (original) (raw)

Australia is at war... with feral cats.

The government announced its Threatened Species Strategy at the inaugural Threatened Species Summit last month.

The centrepiece is the goal of culling two million feral cats by 2020.

On Life Matters we're exploring a contentious idea, that rather than culling feral cats, we should embrace them as part of Australia's environment, even rename them "Australian Wildcats".

This argument comes from Dr Arian Wallach, ecologist and founder of the Dingo for Biodiversity Project who expounded it recently in a piece in The Conversation.

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