If you're a cat and you live in Australia, your days may be numbered. Richard Evans, a member of parliament, has developed a plan to erradicate both domestic and wild cats from Australia by the year 2020. Evans argues that cats are responsible for bringing dozens of indigenous species of small nocturnal animals to the brink of extinction. Since cats are an introduced species, they have no natural predators in Australia and the animals they prey on don't instinctually know how to defend themselves against cats. Korva talks with Evans who explains exactly how he plans to go about ridding Australia of felines.
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