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For feral cats in Australia, implant makes native wildlife their last meal

December 16, 2021

Researchers in Australia have come up with a novel way to protect native wildlife from feral cats. Scientists with the University of South Australia developed rice-sized implants that can be injected under the skin of …

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Wild pig toxicant raises concerns for native wildlife

May 19, 2021

Sodium nitrite bait seemed like an ideal toxicant to deal with wild pigs. But when dead birds appeared near a test bait station in Texas, biologists realized they had eaten crumbs of bait that the …

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Bats face complicated links between contaminants and disease

January 26, 2021

Cecilia Sánchez was studying flying foxes in Australia when she discovered that bats captured in areas with a larger human impact tended to have higher concentrations of metal contaminants in their fur. She also examined …

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USFWS delays request to poison mice on Farallon Islands

July 16, 2019

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has temporarily withdrawn a request to use toxicants to eliminate invasive mice from the Farallon Islands off the coast of California. The agency pulled its request from the California …

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An ever-changing ecological battlefield — from The Wildlife Professional

June 12, 2017

Frozen in the act of scavenging dinner, the vulture’s head lay on the fox’s abdomen, covering the hole it had been attempting to enlarge. When biologists pulled the bird away, they found not only a …

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