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huge fines on owners of cats caught outside now because
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/pets/not-hard-australians-hit-with-cat-curfew-following-more-than-a-billion-wildlife-animal-deaths/news-story/511f0e62752951a2ef988f135c222e47
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10765001/City-Bayswater-cat-ban-Perth-owners-fined-pet-caught-roaming-natural-areas.html
Cats kill 1.7 billion native animals each year
and have played a major role in most of Australia’s 34 mammal extinctions
https://www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/media/eeufmpqx/112-the-impact-of-cats-in-australia-findings-factsheetweb.pdf
They continue to pose an extinction threat to at least another 120 species.
https://www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/media/sphgvm15/4-4-5-threats-to-threatened-species-findings-factsheet.pdf
A recent parliamentary inquiry into the problem of feral and pet cats in Australia has affirmed the issue is indeed of national significance.
The final report, released last week, calls for a heightened, more effective, multi-pronged and coordinated policy,
management and research response.
As ecologists, we’ve collectively spent more than 50 years researching Australia’s cat dilemma.
We welcome most of the report’s recommendations,
but in some areas it doesn’t go far enough, missing major opportunities to make a difference.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Environment_and_Energy/Feralanddomesticcats/Report
Night curfews aren’t good enough
The report recommends Australia’s 3.8 million pet cats be subject to night-time curfews.
This measure would benefit native nocturnal mammals,
but won’t save birds and reptiles, which are primarily active during the day.
https://theconversation.com/australia-must-control-its-killer-cat-problem-a-major-new-report-explains-how-but-doesnt-go-far-enough-154931
USA Cats kill 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion mammals every year
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/cats-kill-billions-animals-annually-study-finds/story?id=18357853
China Cats kill five billion birds each year
https://www.birdguides.com/news/cats-kill-five-billion-birds-in-china-each-year/#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20has%20estimated,each%20year%20in%20China%20alone.
