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  1. Is killing cats a useful strategy for protecting NZ ecosystems?

  2. 1/02/2013 1:24:22 p.m. John Sawyer

    I have read many articles recently about Gareth Morgan's proposal to rid NZ of wild cats and his offer to pay a $5 bounty for every free-ranging, homeless cat destroyed by an authorised facility. Is this a useful strategy for ensuring the protection of indigenous ecosystems? Is there any up-to-date research that I should read about the benefits (or otherwise) of doing this?

  3. 1/02/2013 3:39:23 p.m. John Barkla

    Theres been a bunch of of short discussion articles on this subject in SciBlogs which I've found informative. A recent one is http://sciblogs.co.nz/politecol/?p=509&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciblogsnz+%28SciBlogs.co.nz%29

  4. 2/02/2013 3:21:35 p.m. John Sawyer

    Thanks John. That is really helpful and very interesting.

  5. 26/02/2013 9:16:29 a.m. Marcia Dale

    Also Yolanda van Heezik from Otago Uni has been doing a number of studies on domestic cat impacts on wildlife, they are well worth a read.

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