State government recently released a cat management strategy.
Multiple missed opportunities to drive better welfare outcomes for wildlife populations and cats.

More positively, the people who wrote it get paid every fortnight.

BTP in our yard.

North Warrandyte - Victoria.

(Location shared with Vic Biodiversity Atlas).

Fortunate to live with Powerful Owls in the neighbourhood.

(Common Brushtail Possum may think otherwise).

#Powl

Populations of ground-nesting birds are subject to many threats, with invasive predators a key causal factor in loss of individuals and populations.

This recent devastating story from NZ.

Very pleased to have had the opportunity to make a small contribution to increasing the pressure on invasive species on New Island.

I am keenly following the outcomes of the current breeding season for White-Chinned Petrel. A range of threats impacting on this very small population of seabirds.

Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) representing the the broad behavioural change observed in this species that occurred following application of solid pressure on feral cats 2021-22.
#WildOz

Hi - interested to join this starter pack please.

#WildOz

Solid pressure on feral cats produces results that can't be truffled with.
(Caution: fun guy joke)

Checking in.
Perhaps @judydunlop.bsky.social too!

Tragic outcome for this Pied Oystercatcher.
Tagged as an adult bird in June 1991.
Killed by a feral cat in Sept 2024.

>33 years old.

French Island, Victoria.

#birds

Roydon Island.

Whitemark, Flinders Is.

Hummocky / Mount Chappell in background.