Threats included in this Australian Menagerie™ are:

Cats - eat native animals, compete for food with native animals and may spread disease.

Fire - frequency, intensity and seasonality changes may alter the vegetation composition and reduce or destroy shelter availability.

Pollution - including oil spills, chemicals, sewage, soil washing into water, rubbush (eg. plastic bags, fishing lines and nets), may kill animals or their food supply.

Rabbits - compete with native animals for food and shelter, ringbark plants and can change the vegetation composition, disturb the soil and cause erosion.

Foxes - eat native animals, compete with native animals for food and shelter and may spread disease.

 

Management Strategies included in this Australian Menagerie™ are:

Cats - are controlled by trapping, shooting, poisoning, fencing, animal proofing garbage disposal units and implementing education programs which encourage responsible cat ownership.

Fire - extensive research to determine desirable fire regimes must be followed by appropriate management of wild fires, hazard reduction fires and fires for ecological purposes.

Pollution - can be reduced through education programs and legislation which aims to reduce household, community and industrial pollution.

Rabbits - numbers can be reduced by introducing biological controls (disease). warren destruction, poison baits, fumigating warrens and fencing.

Foxes - are controlled by poisoning, trapping, shooting, fencing and animal proofing garbage disposal units.