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VICtort
at Tue Nov 15 13:57:18 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by VICtort ]
How do you measure "destructive"?, economics? ecologically?, disease vectors?, personal impact? etc.
Top candidates would include: feral cats, Norway and black rats, etc. Feral cats truly are a pestilence, and the amazing politics that surrounds any effort to reduce them will make your head spin. Cats are killing millions of songbirds, gamebirds, reptiles, small mammals per year, impacting via competition for food other predators, spreading/harboring disease etc. Want to help the environment and make the Earth a better place in a tangible way? Put out some bird houses and eliminate some feral cats. 5 per year is all I ask...what if every birder, herper, natural history enthusiast did it? Anecdote: I eliminated a cat colony near my home, and the Sceloporus (lizards) and small snakes have greatly increased in about 3 years time.
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