Should we kill feral cats?
Short & Curly
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Australia is on the war path, pledging to kill two million feral cats by 2020. They felines are biologically the same creatures as the kitties people have as pets at home, but most were born in the wild. Feral cats are said to be responsible for millions of native animals and birds being killed each year and their numbers are skyrocketing. So, a big program to cull cats is underway. Is it okay to take some lives to protect many others? And what about the poor cats? Is it their fault humans brought them here, then let them loose in the environment?
Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producer: Ian Walker
Guest: Gregory Andrews, Threatened Species Commissioner Department of Environment and Energy, Australian Government
Brains Trust: Oliver, Hugh, Lily, Polly, Georgie, and Paddy from Millthorpe Public School, NSW
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Australia goes to war. |
| 0:02.0 | Fighting is raging throughout the hills and valleys of the rugged Australian wilderness. |
| 0:07.0 | A nighttime predator, ferocious and deadly, haunts the countryside, and is creeping closer to our homes. |
| 0:15.0 | Short and Curley's brave hosts, Molly Daniels and Carl Smith, go deep behind enemy lines, bringing you exclusive recordings from |
| 0:23.0 | the headquarters of the warring factions. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm here at the scene of a giant rally where Australia's threatened species commissioner |
| 0:30.9 | Gregory Andrews is spearheading the assault on Australia's enemy. |
| 0:35.0 | He's made a public statement about the fight ahead of us. |
| 0:38.3 | We're fighting extinction. |
| 0:40.2 | We're doing it because we need to do it |
| 0:42.0 | to save our bilbies, our bandy coots, our night parrots, |
| 0:46.1 | our bettongs, our qualls, |
| 0:48.2 | and the animals that belong here. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm crying. |
| 0:53.1 | Inspirational words. |
| 0:54.5 | On the other side of the warfront, |
| 0:56.4 | Molly Daniels crawls into the den |
| 0:58.5 | where Australia's mysterious enemy meets |
| 1:01.1 | to discuss their next cunning attack. |
| 1:04.4 | The space is small and narrow |
| 1:06.7 | and I'm being guided down |
| 1:08.7 | by two of our enemy's top bodyguards. |
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