Australia’s great cat cull
200 Years ago that cats were introduced to Australia by Europeans 20 million Feral cats now prowling the country 75 million Estimated number of native animals that the cats kill every day 27 Number of mammals driven to extinction, including the desert bandicoot, by hunting cats 100 Additional native animal species considered at risk from wild cats It’s open season on wild cats Down Under. Over the next five years, Australia will slaughter two million feral felines to protect native animals from the foreign interlopers, dubbed “efficient predators.”