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Australia’s war on feral cats: shaky science, missing ethics

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imageFeral cat with galah, mounted specimen. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

In July 2015, the Australian government announced a “war on feral cats,“ with the intention of killing over two million felines by 2020. The threat abatement plan to enforce this policy includes a mix of shooting, trapping and a reputedly “humane” poison.

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