Through our Farmers for Fauna Project, we get calls and emails from farmers who have spotted native fauna including numbats, chuditch, bush-stone curlews and quenda. These native fauna populations in some areas are increasing due to efforts in feral cat and fox control. The landholder who shared a trail camera monitoring image with us has had red-tail and brush tail phascogales, echidnas and a numbat visit their property. Despite conducting both feral cat and fox control, there are still feral cats threatening native fauna.

Since their arrival into Australia feral cats and foxes are thought to be the responsible for the extinction or decline of a wide range of native species. Across Australia it is estimated that feral cats kill 815 million mammals every year and millions more reptiles, birds and insects!

However there is hope, where feral cats and foxes have been effectively controlled there can be noticeable benefits to native fauna including threatened species such as numbats and woylies. If you need support managin foxes and feral cats on your property please contact PHCC’s Farmers for Fauna Coordinator via email christine.townsend@peel-harvey.org.au

This project is supported by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council Numbat Neighbourhood Project through funding from the Australian Government.

We acknowledge the Noongar people as Traditional Custodians of this land and pay our respects to all Elders past and present