Baits tested to control feral cats

Poisonous baits are being dropped by plane into two West Australian national parks to kill off feral cats preying on an endangered parrot species.
In cooperation with the government of St Vincent, the Sanctuary maintains a captive breeding population of St Vincent Amazon parrots, one of the rarest parrots on earth with fewer than 600 living in the wild. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Environmental and security threats at a nature sanctuary in Barbados may force rare and endangered species to be moved from there.
Habitat offset does not compensate the habitat distruction these Red-tailed Black cockatoos are faceing. Image by MandaUniversity of Queensland researchers are investigating whether habitat offsets could genuinely compensate for the removal of large old trees, the key feeding habitat for the endangered Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in south-eastern Australia.