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Feral Free Kangaroo Island 2021

Kangaroo Island is a unique place. Due to the island’s diverse natural habitats, a long period of separation from the mainland, comparatively low native vegetation clearance, and no foxes and rabbits, the island is home to numerous species and ecological communities found nowhere else on earth. The Kangaroo Island Landscape Board has eradicated feral goats and deer from Kangaroo Island and is working toward removing feral pigs. The only other feral animal on the island causing havoc to native wildlife and the local sheep industry is the feral cat. The immensely detrimental impact feral cats have on native wildlife throughout Australia (including Kangaroo Island) and the world is well documented. However, Kangaroo Island feral cats also harbour diseases such as Sarcocystis and Toxoplasmosis at much higher rates than on mainland Australia. These diseases cause measurable decreases in livestock productivity across the island. Unlike most of mainland Australia, Kangaroo Island feral cats are easier to catch, which makes their eradication, although an ambitious undertaking, quite an achievable one. The Kangaroo Island Landscape Board is committed to removing feral cats from the whole of Kangaroo Island, starting with the 38,000 ha Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end. There are other large-scale cat control programs operating on Kangaroo Island: the KI Landscape Board’s Dunnart Recovery Program and Land for Wildlife’s cat control efforts are all contributing knowledge and resources toward tackling the feral cat problem. This video aims to promote Kangaroo Island and what an even more amazing place it would be without feral cats.