Australia : A Huge Fence is Build against Cats



To reintroduce some threatened species, Australia will build an impassable fence to keep cats away, accused of destroying endemic wildlife in the country.

Australia has launched the site of an insurmountable fence by wild cats in order to surround a huge area where the species decimated by this predator introduced two centuries ago by European settlers will be reintroduced.
   
This fence will make it possible to create a refuge of 69,000 hectares northwest of Alice Spring, in the desert "outback". In parallel, hundreds of Wildcats will be caught and killed. Led by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), the project involves the reintroduction of about ten species that currently survive on protected islands or pockets.

Wildcats accused

"In fact, all small to medium-sized mammals, especially in central Australia, have seen their numbers fall dramatically, and what the first explorers saw was an Australian bush full of small animals, but cats Wild and foxes, in particular, have stolen native wildlife and much of central Australia is now a desert with regard to marsupials, "said Wednesday at AFP Atticus Fleming, AWC.
Wildcats are shown to be the number one culprit. Their population is estimated to be several million, some killing up to seven animals per night.

They have already eradicated certain populations since their introduction by the Europeans two centuries ago.
   
Up to 400 cats will be eliminated early next year when the first phase of an erection of the fence will be completed. By 2015, Australia had planned to kill 2 million wild cats.

"Between the cats and the bilbis, we choose the bilbis"

Reintroductions will begin in 2019. The first species concerned are the numbat - or marsupial anteater - and rock wallaby, or Western Australian petroglyph. Other species to be reintroduced include Geoffroy's marsupial cat, bushy-tailed bettongia and bilbi.

"Between the cats and the bilbis, we choose the bilbis. In three to four years, we can visit this area and see the Australian bush as it was 200 years ago," said Atticus Flemming.

ACW hopes that other cat-free areas will be built by the time science finds an effective solution to predator control. Efforts to kill or sterilize wild cats have so far been ineffective.

Source : BFMTV

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