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Poison baiting has emerged as the most effective way to control feral cat and fox numbers across Australia according to the Centre for Invasive Species Solution.
The two new planning guides released by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions say that for both feral cats and foxes, poison baiting is the most cost-effective, efficient, and deadly way to deal with these pests.
The Planning Guide for Feral Cat Management says, “Feral cats are hard to detect, and eradication is extremely difficult unless you are on an island or within an appropriately fenced area and that un-desexed local domestic cats, kept as pets or farm cats, can provide a source population for future feral cats.”…