SYDNEY, July 22, 2015 (AFP) - French actress Brigitte Bardot (pic) has condemned an Australian plan to cull two million feral cats to stop them harming native animals, a proposal animal rights groups said Wednesday was unlikely to be successful.
Feral cats have been identified as the main culprit behind Australia’s high rate of mammal extinction, with more than 10 percent of species wiped out since Europeans settled here two centuries ago.
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