This quote in the NYTimes (originally from a humane society article) hit close to home today.
"even if we solve the cat problem tomorrow, it’s not going to stop bird populations from declining. It would just be removing one pressure—and none of [the pressures] are going to be solved overnight."
What do you think?
It seems that wild cats are unlikely to live in areas where the most sensitive birds live (wetlands, tropical rainforests, remote deserts, etc.) and while there certainly is an edge effect with house cats in the suburbs that speaks more to me about the loss of habitat caused by human population growth than a cat problem. Although many models estimate the bird genocide cats participate in these models don't emphasize the other significant factors in species decline (in some cases don't even mention them).
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