Cats and small island conservation
Domestic cats have been in the news recently in Europe.
Conservationists have been trialling some new techniques to try to
limit the depredations of pets and feral cats on different wildlife
species. There is no dispute about the volume of wildlife killed by
cats, but what is not always clear is the extent to which this results
in population declines of the species they are killing. Most species
are able to tolerate the impact of this depredation, because they are
evolved to cope with it.