Authors
Sarah Legge, John CZ Woinarski, Andrew A Burbidge, Russell Palmer, Jeremy Ringma, James Q Radford, Nicola Mitchell, Michael Bode, Brendan Wintle, Marcus Baseler, Joss Bentley, Peter Copley, Nicholas Dexter, Chris R Dickman, Graeme R Gillespie, Brydie Hill, Chris N Johnson, Peter Latch, Mike Letnic, Adrian Manning, Erin E McCreless, Peter Menkhorst, Keith Morris, Katherine Moseby, Manda Page, David Pannell, Katherine Tuft
Publication date
2018/10/3
Journal
Wildlife Research
Volume
45
Issue
7
Pages
627-644
Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
Description
Context Many Australian mammal species are highly susceptible to predation by introduced domestic cats (Felis catus) and European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). These predators have caused many extinctions and have driven large distributional and population declines for many more species. The serendipitous occurrence of, and deliberate translocations of mammals to, ‘havens’ (cat- and fox-free offshore islands, and mainland fenced exclosures capable of excluding cats and foxes) has helped avoid further extinction. Aims The aim of this study was to conduct a stocktake of current island and fenced havens in Australia and assess the extent of their protection for threatened mammal taxa that are most susceptible to cat and fox predation. Methods Information was collated from diverse sources to document (1) the locations of havens and (2) the occurrence of populations of predator-susceptible threatened …
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