Conserving wildlife at landscape-scales

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The project aims to conserve threatened wildlife at large scales in unfenced landscapes. Using empirical field experiments in Australia and New Zealand, the project will test how suppressing populations of invasive prey – rabbits – could reduce the effect of invasive predators – cats – on native wildlife. Feral cats threaten biodiversity globally, including Australia and New Zealand. Effective control of cats is difficult at large-scales but rabbit control is feasible. The project aims to provide a conceptual approach for biodiversity conservation that can be scaled up to mitigate the effects of invasive predators at large scales globally and allow restoration of ecosystems.