The Australian government has proposed a plan to kill millions of feral cats. Feral cats are a major reason that 27 mammal species in Australia have become extinct in the last 200 years.
As Mr. Gregory Andrews, Australia’s threatened species commissioner noted, such species as the lesser bilgy, desert badicoot, crescent nailtail wallaby and big-eared hopping mouse, “delightful creatures, rich in importance in Australian indigenous culture,” have all been extirpated, largely as a result of cats.
One critic of the plan actually said the killing of cats was genocide, which makes a mockery of the Holocaust, the Armenian massacres, and the Ruanda tragedy.
I have always had a problem with animal rights people who put individual animals above species preservation. Why are feral cats more important than the crescent nailtail wallaby? Australia has an estimated 20 million feral cats. If every one of them were killed, cats would not be extirpated. Unfortunately, 27 other species already are.
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