Goal 6: Reducing feral cat impacts

TARGET: Reduced impact of feral cats over five million hectares

Outputs

• New knowledge on feral cat ecology and ecological interactions of control methods
• Tools and strategies for reducing the impact of feral cats
• Humane and species tailored (PAPP) Curiosity® feral cat baits
• Education and management package

Projects

• Feral cat bait uptake in eastern Australia (6.U.1)
• Demonstration Site: Introduced predator control and fauna recovery, WA (10.U.1)
  • PhD: Effects of predation and resource availability on western brushtail possum populations (Jennyfer Cruz-Bernal)

Relevant projects included under other goals

• Demonstration Site: Southern Ark: benefitting the biodiversity of East Gippsland through fox control, Vic (10.U.4 see goal 1) 
  • PhD: The ecology of feral cats in forested habitats and their response to broad scale fox control measures in East Gippsland (10.U.4 Tony Buckmaster)
• Demonstration site: Management program for deer, pigs, goats and cats on Kangaroo Island, SA (10.U.2, see goal 2)