Cats in the crosshairs: Australia deadly serious about cat culling

Feral felines are driving Australia’s native species towards extinction. Now a massive culling operation is underway to preserve what’s left of the wild. Jessica Camille Aguirre reports

Cats in the crosshairs: Australia deadly serious about cat culling

Feral felines are driving Australia’s native species towards extinction. Now a massive culling operation is underway to preserve what’s left of the wild. Jessica Camille Aguirre reports

In the deep winter weeks of last July, Shane Morse and Kevin Figliomeni nearly always got up before the sun rose. They awoke next to the remains of a campfire or, occasionally, in a roadside motel, and in the darkness before dawn they began unloading poisoned sausage from their refrigerated truck.

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