Not exact matches
Humans living in densely populated urban areas have a profound
impact not only
on their physical environment, but also
on the health and fitness of
native wildlife.
Instead, it opted for a low - key approach of meeting with the cat - colony supporters and cat owners in a public relations campaign «focusing
on responsible cat ownership and the
impact on native wildlife posed by feral and free - ranging cats.»
Indeed, the Plan's Justification for Management Action suggests that FWS has an insufficient and / or largely incorrect understanding of the
impacts of feral and free - roaming cats
on native wildlife and the environment.
The letter expressed strong opposition to free - roaming cats within the U.S. «due to the adverse
impacts of these non-
native predators
on federally listed threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, and other vulnerable
native wildlife.»
By far the biggest
impact on native wildlife is humans not cats.
While these cats become part of the natural ecosystem, often reducing the rodent population in our neighborhoods, they can also have a negative
impact on native wildlife and songbirds.
Finally, the return of feral cats to the wild must be balanced against the
impacts these cats can have
on wildlife, including
on threatened and endangered species, habitats, and food sources for
native predators.»
This has had a disastrous
impact on Australia's
native wildlife; 29 mammals have become extinct over the past 200 years.
I am really concerned about the
impact of feral cats
on native wildlife in Australia.
Trap - neuter - release (TNR) programs, in which feral cats are sterilized and fed in unconfined colonies, have been advocated as a humane and effective way to reduce the
impacts of feral cats
on native wildlife.
The
impacts on the environment, the
wildlife habitats, the health and well - being of the local inhabitants, and
on native peoples are questions that have not been thoroughly addressed.
Biologists call this swath of woods and pristine waterways a grand central station for
wildlife in the Northeast, a key buffer against the
impacts of climate change
on native species.
If
on the other hand the moderately
impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important
native species of
wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.