In some regions, foxes kill at least 1,000 animals per square kilometre every year.
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What if we could help threatened marsupials evolve to survive foxes and feral cats?
Rabbits destroy huge numbers of critical regenerating seedlings over more than half the continent. This has devastating flow-on effects for the rest of the ecosystem. So how do we control them?
Research into fox scents suggests a complex form of ‘chemical communication’ underlies the animal’s behaviour. The findings could help improve pest control methods and protect native wildlife.
Your faithful friend’s view of the world is different than yours, but maybe not in the way you imagine.
Introduced species are often targeted for culling in conservation, but killing charismatic animals like foxes can be controversial.
Coyotes, whose range is expanding, are now at the doorstep of South America.
Rabies is almost always fatal once the symptoms appear. It is also completely preventable, so long as you know how to protect yourself.
Fox hunting has been banned in the UK since 2004 – so why is it still happening?
Managing rabbit populations isn’t as simple as declaring ‘open season’.
A parasite found in coyotes, wolves and foxes is now spreading to dogs and their owners as its range expands across Canada.
These agile and unfussy animals are well-placed to exploit all the food we leave lying around.
Why politicians need to stop playing politics with animals, and start taking their welfare seriously.
Cats, rats, foxes and other mammal predators have been implicated in 60% of the world’s animals extinctions.
Humans can learn a thing or two from animals on how to deal with stress.
Research published this week shows saving wildlife is much more complicated than killing introduced predators. Killing predators often doesn’t work, and is sometimes actually worse for native wildlife.
New evidence suggests there no foxes in Tasmania. Were there ever? Even if there weren’t, the state’s multi-million dollar fox hunt was worth it to save wildlife.
You don’t need to kill wild animals to prove your worth.
Ninety nine per cent of the poisoned baits set up to catch feral red foxes in Western Australia are being eaten by other…
Almost a third of Australia’s mammals have become extinct or are facing extinction, largely thanks to introduced predators such as cats and foxes. But what is the best way to save the species still alive…
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