Australia built the world's longest fence to prevent cats

Many of Australia's native wildlife species are threatened by foreign predators, especially cats.

The Australian Wildlife Conservation Foundation completed a 44km long fence in central Australia in an effort to save wild animals and native vegetation against the devastation of wild cats. The world's longest cat barrier to help establish a protected area without carnivores is almost 9,400 hectares, AFP reported on May 25.

The world's longest cat barrier to preserve native creatures.(Photo: Australian).

"Australia has no really effective strategy to control cats. So the only way we can save native species from extinction is to establish large areas without the intervention of Wild cats, by building a protective barrier like this, " said Attius Fleming, CEO of the Australian Wildlife Conservation Organization.

A number of endangered mammals such as pangolin, western pocket cats, land mice and Australian hamsters will be protected at the new reserve. The project to build fences to prevent cats is funded by the government and people's contributions. The conservation area is expected to continue to expand from 9,400 hectares to 100,000 hectares by 2020.

Australia is currently the country with the highest percentage of extinct animals in the world. Climate change, habitat loss and especially the effects of predators such as foxes, rabbits and wild cats are responsible for the extinction or rapid decline in the number of animals available. native breast.

Imported cats were brought to Australia by Europeans in the late 18th century. Initially, they were raised as pets, but then many individuals began to live wild and quickly spread throughout the continent after more than 100 years. . It is estimated that 10-20 million wild cats live throughout Australia.