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How killing cats helped to keep Aussie Liberal Party in power

May 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cat purge masks otherwise weak record on endangered species             CANBERRA, Australia––Cats were nowhere on the May 18,  2019 Australian federal election ballot,  and were not among the official campaign issues for any of the contestants,  either.  Yet the Liberal Party scheme to kill two million cats by 2020 lurked just behind the polling results […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Daniel Ramp, Greg Hunt, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Merritt Clifton, Scott Morrison, Shel Williamson

Aussie feds inflated feral cat population 3 to 10 times to push cull policy

January 19, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

New study reports the findings but ignores their meaning          BRISBANE,  Australia––Normally,  if a major study discovers an alleged ecological problem to be just 10% as bad as was previously imagined,  one might expect celebration to follow. The researchers,  other experts,  nonprofit organizations,  and every politician who ever addressed the issue,  however transiently,  might be expected […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Editorials, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Barry Pullen, David Paton, Emily Hanna, Greg Hunt, Gregory Andrews, Merritt Clifton, Ric Nattrass, Sarah Legge

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