Conserving wildlife at landscape-scales

该项目旨在大规模保护无围栏景观中的受威胁野生动物。该项目将利用澳大利亚和新西兰的经验野外实验，测试抑制入侵猎物-兔子-的数量如何减少入侵捕食者-猫-对当地野生动物的影响。野猫威胁着包括澳大利亚和新西兰在内的全球生物多样性。在大范围内有效控制猫是困难的，但控制兔子是可行的。该项目旨在为生物多样性保护提供一种概念性方法，这种方法可以扩大规模，以减轻全球大规模入侵捕食者的影响，并允许恢复生态系统。

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.