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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nick Visser

MYSTERIOUS: We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape the plan to save australias threatened wildlife | Mind Blowing Facts

A fox
Ecologists have spent the past 18 years learning everything they can about foxes and the Australian species they hunt, informing a new national strategy. Photograph: Matthew Rees

They dart across playgrounds on dainty paws, sneak into back yard coops to eat suburban chickens and kill more than a million native animals every day.

The European red fox – a wily invasive species – is “one of the most impactful threats” for native mammals, says Sarah Legge, a professor at Charles Darwin University and author of a new draft plan to curb their predation.

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