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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. For example, when the U.S.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. The huge population of feral cats undoubtedly is having a detrimental effect on our bird life. Since European settlement there has been the loss of at least 23 species and sub-species of birds.

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