A large feral cat is hunting in the outback. ©Chris Watson/Shutterstock.com Cats first arrived in Australia with the first British colonists in 1788, brought as companions and for rodent control.

The ABC's Feral Month mapping project is now complete. You can still check the results on the map and report any feral animals your see via the Commonwealth Government's 'Feralscan' project.

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from inundating Australia’s fragile ecosystems—one camel burger at a time.

A control program in a known West Australian problem area results in 12,000 pigs being killed in six months, leaving farmers ...

In Australia, where feral cat populations are managed with substantial amounts of federal money, time and resources, the management of domestic animals — specifically, pet cats — falls to ...

Cats pose a real threat to native animals in Australia, but finding a one-size-fits-all approach is proving tricky.

Developing more effective tools to directly control feral cats remains a top research priority. It’s estimated cats kill around 452 million native mammals a year in Australia.

Australia’s peak body fighting invasive species was so frustrated at not being invited to Labor’s economic reform roundtable ...

Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and are now racing to repair fencing that keeps feral predators away ...

By protecting Australia’s alpine peatlands from feral animals, we can help them fight climate change, while looking after our water catchments and threatened species.