Explore how British settlers brought domestic cats to Australia in 1788 for pest control, which now threaten native wildlife ...

Feral cats have long been suspects in killing native species reintroduced into Australian conservation areas. DNA testing of the carcasses puts felines firmly in the frame. Conservation scientists ...

A successful feral cat trapping effort in northern Tasmania leads to a spike in the devil population.

All animals need to eat to survive, grow and reproduce. To do so, they also need to avoid being eaten. This is a big challenge for many of Australia's native mammals, because when they search for food ...

In February this year, Digital Journal ran a story on the loss of Australia’s unique and diverse native animals from introduced predators, like the feral cat and red fox, as well as other introduced ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...

Hundreds of feral cats have been culled during a controversial competition in New Zealand. The event had animal rights groups ...