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Jane Ransom writes:
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| A few years ago there was an article in the telegraph about some
| research that had been carried out at great expense to the tax payer.
| The result of this research was that there are fewer birds per square
| area measurement (can't remember what the units were) in areas where
| there were cats than in areas where there were no cats. (Well, I could
| have told them that and saved the tax payer a lot of money!!)
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| So, when the cat population increases to the extent that there are no
| cat free areas, we can say that cats will have a very definite impact on
| bird populations UK wide!!!!

As I pointed out a while back, that happened some time ago over much
of the UK. We don't have PROOF that cats are a main reason (note
'a' not 'the') for the recent declines, but the evidence is pretty
strong.

We need some lynx!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.