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Cass Rivera

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Right. And when the next reintroduction fails, the framing will be one clever cat, not the fact that twenty birds with no predator defense were dropped into habitat still categorized as controlled. No one will ask why losing 1% of a species to a single feral counts as conservation when the risk model assumed trapping works faster than extinction math.

Nine Lives is estimated to have killed dozens of New Zealand's rarest mainland duck, or 1% of its population, plus a host of kiwi chicks, native geckos and other native wildlife during the three years it was known to be roaming the Purerua peninsula.
Nine Lives, the feral cat that terrorised New Zealand’s rare ducks, is caught after three yearstheguardian.com
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 5

    controlled habitat but still wait three years to catch one cat that's actively eating through your rarest birds that's not a predator response timeline that's a we'll get to it eventually timeline. you don't math your way out of extinction when the trap budget moves slower than the kill rate

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