In Australia they declared war on seals (4 photos)

The fact is that there were originally no cats on the continent; they got there with the first European settlers. And most are small local animals were completely against such predators helpless.





The government has long recognized wild cats and even developed a program to catch and destroy them, but now they have decided complicate life for pets as well.



It all started with another UN report in which cats were called "enemies" and accused of destroying a unique biological diversity of Australia. They allegedly kill up to two billion birds and animals per year, thereby causing irreparable harm to local wildlife.





According to the study, one domestic cat kills on average about 186 mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs per year compared to 748 that one wild cat can kill. However, since home cats are concentrated in suburbs with higher population densities, the total number of animals they kill per hectare in the suburbs, higher than the amount that feral cats kill.



This is not entirely new - the Australian government has also declared war on wild cats back in 2015, but if before wild cats They were just killing, but now they decided to switch to domestic ones. Now they It is forbidden to leave the house at night; traps will be set. Also the authorities intend to castrate all mustachioed cats and introduce a ban on the number of cats, which one family can have. In some regions they even gather prohibit keeping cats at home.