Glovebox guide to support feral cat management

A new guide has been developed to help environmental land managers address the growing threat to wildlife posed by feral cats.

Each day, feral cats kill on average 3.1 million mammals, 1.1 million birds and 1.8 million reptiles, and their impact on threatened native species have only increased since the 2019-20 Black Summer Bushfires.

Recent research from the National Environmental Science
Program found that cats also transmit diseases to other animals including
livestock, costing the agricultural industry up to $12 million each year.

The Glovebox Guide for the Management of Feral Cats provides
information about the impacts of feral cats and lays out tools for land
managers to plan their control actions in accordance with their state or
territory legislation.

The free guide was developed by the Centre for Invasive
Species Solutions with funding provided from the federal Department of
Agriculture, Water and Environment and the South Australian Northern and Yorke
Landscape Board through funding from the National Landcare Program.

It is the latest in the series of Pest Management Glovebox
Guides which includes the management of species such as feral pigs, foxes, and
rabbits.

The Glovebox Guide for Managing Feral Cats and other pest animal management guides are available to download and order on the pestsmart website.