Conservation

Conservation of our native wildlife begins at home.  

Australia has one of the highest extinction rates in the world, caused by over predation from introduced predators like foxes and cats.  Cats also spread a deadly disease caused toxoplasmosis.  This disease is particularly harmful to our native carnivores and also humans.  If you keep cats, always keep them locked up inside or outside in enclosures.

Our native mammals are the main ones to suffer.  Many are small, and do not have breeding strategies to cope with the high predation pressures put upon them from efficient predators like foxes and cats. Our main large native predators like Quolls are rather inefficient compared to these animals and cannot compete, so they also suffer.

In order to ensure our wildlife's survival, wild populations of foxes, dingos, dogs and cats, need to be eliminated.   

Our animals come from captive populations and therefore do not impact on wild populations.  The information gained though these captive populations help us understand their wild counterparts better.

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