Since 2018, NRM South has been working with project partners targeting control of feral and stray cats on north Bruny Island. The project focus is protection of Eastern Quolls, with flow-on benefits for all native birds and mammals like the Dusky Antechinus, Short-tailed Shearwaters and Little Penguins.
In 2023, this project received a year-long extension to assess ongoing management interventions. A review by Biosecurity Tasmania concluded that the use of the Felixer traps, in combination with other control techniques, could provide a valuable and complementary tool to managing a northern migration of feral cats from the island’s south.
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