SYDNEY: A conservation agency has built what is assumed to be the world's longest cat-proof fence in central Australia to save lots of native wildlife and plants ravaged through the tom cat predators.
Australia has the best possible extinction fee on the earth, whilst declining populations are affected by habitat loss as well as offered creatures akin to cats, foxes and rabbits going feral and killing native species across the huge continent.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy this month finished construction and electrifying the 44 kilometre (27 mile) lengthy fence to create a predator loose area of virtually 9,400 hectares (23,200 acres) some 350 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs.
"Australia does not have an effective strategy for controlling cats," AWC chief Attius Fleming informed AFP.
"The only way we can save Australia's most endangered animals is by establishing these massive feral cat-free areas using conservation fencing."
Fleming said as part of the venture -- which is funded through public and government donations, cats and different feral animals have been being removed from the area, with threatened native mammals to be reintroduced next 12 months.
The mammals set to be reintroduced in the area, which is owned through the AWC, come with the western quoll, the numbat, the bilby and the central rock-rat.
The venture will likely be prolonged in 2020 to cover a larger area of around 100,000 hectares, Fleming added.
Feral cats are believed to quantity between 10 and 20 million across Australia.
Cats have been first offered to Australia through British immigrants in the late 1700s as domestic pets, but some went wild and spread across the continent over the next 100 years.
Other reasons of native species' inhabitants declines and extinctions come with feral foxes, local weather exchange, hearth and habitat destruction.
Australia has the best possible extinction fee on the earth, whilst declining populations are affected by habitat loss as well as offered creatures akin to cats, foxes and rabbits going feral and killing native species across the huge continent.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy this month finished construction and electrifying the 44 kilometre (27 mile) lengthy fence to create a predator loose area of virtually 9,400 hectares (23,200 acres) some 350 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs.
"Australia does not have an effective strategy for controlling cats," AWC chief Attius Fleming informed AFP.
"The only way we can save Australia's most endangered animals is by establishing these massive feral cat-free areas using conservation fencing."
Fleming said as part of the venture -- which is funded through public and government donations, cats and different feral animals have been being removed from the area, with threatened native mammals to be reintroduced next 12 months.
The mammals set to be reintroduced in the area, which is owned through the AWC, come with the western quoll, the numbat, the bilby and the central rock-rat.
The venture will likely be prolonged in 2020 to cover a larger area of around 100,000 hectares, Fleming added.
Feral cats are believed to quantity between 10 and 20 million across Australia.
Cats have been first offered to Australia through British immigrants in the late 1700s as domestic pets, but some went wild and spread across the continent over the next 100 years.
Other reasons of native species' inhabitants declines and extinctions come with feral foxes, local weather exchange, hearth and habitat destruction.
Australia builds world's longest cat-proof fence to save wildlife
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