Cats- An Annotated Bibliography

This paper refers to two attempts to reintroduce native animals to areas from which they had disappeared due to human activity. These attempts failed because of cat predation. The paper does not analyse the factors which made the reintroduced animals susceptible to cat predation. Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NSW), position paper for the control of cats in Australia (unpublished), 1993. The NSW AWAC reported to the Minister that "implementation of controls on feral cats may cause an imbalance in predator/prey and competitive predator relationships which may be particularly damaging to fragile ecosystems"