BIEN actively supports projects on Bruny Island to reduce the impact of feral and straying cats on wildlife. This includes support for the Council by-law that requires cat-owners to manage their cats effectively to avoid them impacting wildlife and other domestic stock.
Kingborough Council continues to support this ambitious set of projects and research efforts and has produced a wonderful brochure that outlines How cat management is saving wildlife on Bruny Island.
Partners currently include NRM South, Kingborough Council, Ten Lives Cat Centre and the Commonwealth Government.
The work of the tireless Kaylene Allen has been pivotal in the success of cat management on Bruny.
On the ground, Conrad Daniels and his team at Bruny Farming implement cat control and can be contacted if stray or feral cats are sighted.
- See here for some background to the Bruny Island cat management project.
- This fact sheet outlines the impacts of feral and stray cats.
- This fact sheet examines the impacts of uncontrolled pet cats.
- If you have a cat, and would like to transition your pet to confinement: an animal behaviour expert discusses how to deal with common problems such as stress, scratching, yowling etc.
Exciting progress is continuing with reducing the impacts of cats in Bruny Island. This latest update includes these highlights: 40 cats (23 feral and 17 stray) removed from the project area. Feral cat control activities underway in the seabird colonies…
Implementation of the Bruny Island Cat By-law continues, with most known cat owners helping to prevent: predation of native animals spread of disease to domestic stock and recruitment into the stray and feral cat populations Read the full report here:…
A Community Forum on Dec 5th at Dennes Point provided information on the research and cat management activities planned for the next two years and discussed how the community can get involved. The work will focus on North Bruny as…
Inside with Cats is a partnership between Kingborough Council, Ten Lives Cat Centre, Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the Bruny Island Environment Network. This series of 5 videos introduces six Kingborough cats (along with their humans), who are embracing life on…
Assistance is being offered to Bruny Islanders to trap stray cats on private land. By arrangement, traps can be borrowed and cats taken to the Cat Facility at Alonnah for assessment and care. We will particularly welcome help in our…
Federal funds will soon be released to continue the fantastic work on controlling the impacts of feral cats on Bruny. Whilst the release of funding has been slow, that has not stopped Tonia Cochran and her team at Inala from…
Great progress continues with the cat management project, with cat numbers declining, new management approaches being trialed, Bruny Farming taking a major role, and support from the University of Tasmania and the Commonwealth Government continuing. The report attached details cat…
Kaylene Allan - Cat Management Officer, Kingborough Council, reports here on the many and various activities that have been undertaken on Bruny Island since June 2018. Bruny Islanders are invited to submit their views on the By Law and cat…