New Zealand has announced plans to eradicate feral cats by 2050, as part of efforts to protect the country’s biodiversity.

Speaking to Radio New Zealand on Thursday, conservation minister Tama Potaka said that feral cats are “stone cold killers” and would be added to the country’s Predator Free 2050 list, which aims to eradicate those animals that have a negative impact on species such as birds, bats, lizards and insects.

Cats had previously been excluded from the list, which includes species such as stoats, ferrets, weasels, rats and possums, but Potaka used the interview to announce a U-turn.

  • justadudeingear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Well, I’m not a feral cat and I did date a guy who are cat years, but I don’t know he doesn’t wear it anymore. It’s just a costume I used to identify as a furry or human Pup but now it was just so I could work at a bar a leather bar it has nothing to do with dogs and people thought so they wouldn’t even go to a bar. They wouldn’t even try to understand that what you do at a bar as you meet someone you make a conversation you buy a few drinks you drink a few shot Jell-O shots and then you go home and then you call it an evening, but I don’t know. I guess I got so frustrated that it’s a bit of dog just to proof to prove that it has nothing to do with it. I can’t stand puppy stuff anymore. I’m I mean all it was was well when you get older you still need to work and the best place for working in the evenings is to be a bartender or doing clothing and we all get older when we lose our looks so we have to try something new and it has nothing to do about feral cats or anything, but it’s just saying someone wants to see something interesting. They want to see a show a dance performance a comedy event you know everything is a costume at least that’s how I always saw it not a lifestyle just just a costume.