The government wants to kill 2 million cats by 2020 Australia plans to kill millions of feral cats by airdropping sausages laced with poison. The problem became more prominent in 2015, when the Australian government decided to take urgent steps to combat this, probably the biggest, threat to the native fauna.

Australia has declared "war" on feral cats. Cats are predators and excellent hunters but that cannot be held against them. Australian officials are killing millions of feral cats by airdropping frozen sausages laced with poison across the Outback. The strategy for the protection of endangered species assumed killing of 2 million cats by 2020 [1]. The federal government plans to kill 2 million feral cats by 2020. Just […] Feral cats cover 99.8% of Australia at a density of one cat for every four square kilometres, according to new research. Australia wants to kill 2 million feral felines by 2020. Feral cats in Australia have recently been a hot topic. All told, extrapolating from the data, the researchers estimate the feral cat population in Australia, which totals between two and six million, now gobbles up 596 million lizards per year. Radio collars and video cameras are helping conservationists in Australia track the habits of feral cats better than ever before, improving scientists' understanding of the animals' hunting habits. [1] They claim the feral cats are to blame for native small mammal species becoming close to extinction. A few bits of circumstantial evidence suggest to some that feral cats in Australia are now reaching enormous sizes, equivalent to that of a small leopard. Andrews claimed to the Sydney Morning Herald that since the introduction of cats, about …