Posted on 03/29/2019 5:55:47 AM PDT by C19fan
Scientists are calling for a widespread cull of feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice to save the endangered species they prey upon.
Their eradication on more than 100 islands could save some of the rarest animals on Earth, says an international team.
Islands have seen 75% of known bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile extinctions over the past 500 years.
Many of the losses are caused by animals introduced by humans.
Not naturally present on islands, they can threaten native wildlife.
"Eradicating invasive mammals from islands is a powerful way to remove a key threat to island species and prevent extinctions and conserve biodiversity," said Dr Nick Holmes, from the group Island Conservation.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How do they think animals got to these islands in the first place?
In before the kitty lovers stroke out.
Each cat will have to be culled 9 times. That’s a lot of work considering how many feral cats there are.
The world is culling western civilization
Cull the damned “scientists”.
Enough out of them already.
Yes there is no shortage of cats or dogs.
The Brits are pushing stories all over the Internet about the decline insect species, and now small mammals (rodents?) Is there something in the water over in the UK?
I think they should be culled.
Not for the reasons stated, just on general principle.
Must preserve the feral mice
I don't know anyone, anywhere that eats a cat. Obama eats dog, and pigs, well we all eat BACON...
On a more serious note, and no, not many things more important that BACON, it is interesting that most of extinctions occur on these island, by animals--not directly by humans. We eliminate these animals and we stop the bulk of extinctions? A nice Pareto Chart is in order.
There are an equal number of people who wouldn’t go along with this simply because it is a Leftist point of view, and reading this article, it sounds like leftist environmentalist boilerplate.
Sure, bring back the Black Death for leftist freaks’ low-pop utopia!
I agree, I don’t have a problem with culling things that are out of balance. I don’t hunt, but isn’t deer hunting by humans exactly that, and in a positive way?
Is there something in the water ...
Either propaganda or some religious cult.
How long can I keep expired prescription drugs? What happens if you take them when they are like 5 years old? Are they just weakened? Or can they make you sick? Just wondering.
We don’t stroke.
We strike.
Just like our putties.
They misspelled DEMS. They put CATS.
The exact same argument can and should be used regarding Illegal Immigration.
Locally, coastal Oregon, biologists poison native wildlife in favor of expanding a small population of snowy plovers. The plovers have been expanding there range nationally, and when they reached Oregon, the enviros saw a chance to clamp down on human activity.
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