Further, poor fitness, obesity, and exposure to harmful chemicals during childhood have strong negative effects on later health outcomes. (discovermagazine.com)
Introduced cats are responsible for the decline of native mammals in Australia (Risbey et al. 2000; Wheeler and Priddel 2009; Moseby et al. 2009; Frank et al. 2014), and several island studies have documented strong negative effects by cats on local endemic fauna (e.g., Fitzgerald and Veitch 1985; Medina and Nogales 2009; Bonnaud et al. 2012). (link.springer.com)
Adding to these problems, current agricultural subsidy systems favour intensive grazing on the remaining semi-natural grasslands, with strong negative effects on butterfly diversity. (sciencedaily.com)