Australian Wildlife Conservancy


Feral cats are the single greatest threat to Australia's endangered wildlife
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"...cats kill more than one million birds, more than one million reptiles, and more than one million mammals in Australia every day."
                                                                                        Dr John Woinarski
Feral cats are the single greatest threat to Australia's endangered wildlife, especially our mammals. Australia already has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world - if we fail to reduce the impact of feral cats, more species will be lost forever.
A generous Sydney family has now made a stunning offer - the JAAM Foundation will match eligible donations in support of AWC's feral cat strategy up to a total of $1 million.
Your eligible tax deductible donation to AWC will be doubled if it is made before 30 June.

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AWC is creating a network of massive feral cat-free areas throughout Australia
This is a great opportunity to accelerate our work addressing Australia's greatest conservation challenge - the impact of feral cats - through:
  1. Establishing a national network of massive feral cat-free areas: Feral cat-free areas protect some of the largest remaining wild populations of Australia's most endangered animals, such as the Mala and the Numbat.
  2. Implementing feral cat control across AWC properties: This includes trapping, shooting and indigenous tracking and hunting, as well as ground-breaking scientific research designed to improve the effectiveness of cat control measures.
  3. A potential long-term answer - gene drive technology: AWC is working with CSIRO and other partners to explore whether gene drive technology can be utilised to remove feral cats from the landscape, for example, by causing feral cats to have only male kittens. This is a long-term (decades long) project, but it is potentially our best hope in finding a continent-wide solution to the feral cat crisis. Initial priorities include research on cat genomics and feral cat mating ecology, dispersal and population genetics.
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Murray Schofield with two cats that were caught in soft jaw traps at Newhaven W Lawler/AWC
You can double the return on your investment!
Please help save Australia's wildlife from feral cats. Donations to AWC in support of our Feral Cat Strategy before 30 June will be matched as follows:
·    If you are a new AWC donor: your donation of $250 or more will be matched.
·    If you are an existing AWC donor: all additional donations of $500 or more will be matched (i.e., donations that are in addition to your usual level of giving).
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Gene drive technology provides our best hope for an effective long-term solution to the feral cat crisis
Please consider making an eligible gift to AWC in response to the Feral Cat Challenge before 30 June. Your tax deductible donation will be doubled, helping AWC take action to address the greatest threat to Australia's endangered wildlife.
You can donate online or call 08 9380 9633.
Thank you for your support.
Yours sincerely
AF
Atticus Fleming
Chief Executive

P.S. Thank you to everyone who has already donated to AWC. We are very grateful for all donations no matter how big or small ... every dollar makes a difference!


More information about AWC's feral cat strategy:
Watch ABC TV's Landline program
Read The Weekend Australian Magazine
Listen to ABC Drive Radio

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