{"id":39153,"date":"2019-04-28T03:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39153"},"modified":"2019-04-28T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:22:49","slug":"australia-plans-to-kill-2-million-killer-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39153","title":{"rendered":"Australia plans to kill 2 million &#8216;killer&#8217; cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>They&#8217;re cute, they&#8217;re fluffy, and they&#8217;re public enemy number one in Australia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Australia is at war &#8212; with feral cats. By 2020, the government wants to kill two<a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.gov.au\/biodiversity\/threatened\/publications\/ts-strategy-summary\" target=\"_blank\"> million <\/a>free roaming cats, a large chunk of the total feral cat population, which is estimated to be between <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/feral-cat-cull-why-the-2-million-target-is-on-scientifically-shaky-ground-111824\" target=\"_blank\">2 and 6 million<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Some areas of Australia have gone even further. In the northeastern state of Queensland, there&#8217;s even a council offering a $10 ($7) bounty per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banana.qld.gov.au\/declared-animals\/declared-animals-1?documentId=23&#038;categoryId=79\" target=\"_blank\">feral cat scalp<\/a> &#8212; a policy People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has lambasted as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org.au\/media\/banana-shire-cat-bounty-prompts-peta-billboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">cruel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)They&#8217;re cute, they&#8217;re fluffy, and they&#8217;re public enemy number one in Australia.Australia is at war &#8212; with feral cats. By 2020, the government wants to kill two million free roaming cats, a large chunk of the total feral cat population, which is estimated to be between 2 and 6 million.Some areas of Australia have gone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}