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During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats are euthanised every year by despondent animal welfare workers. Misplaced sentimentality, sometimes promoted by corporate greed of cat food companies, has exacerbated this situation through promoting irresponsible feeding of strays.
Ecologist and author John Read has travelled the world consulting cat experts and collating the most recent science. In Among the Pigeons he balances the allure of indoor cats with the animal welfare, human health, and conservation issues they create when allowed to roam. But he also presents solutions, from breeding ideal indoor pet cats to development of humane and targeted tools, to control feral cats.
In striking parallel to the repercussions of human-induced climate change, warnings about the damage wrought by free-ranging cats have been largely denied or overlooked. But we ignore these issues at our peril. For our own mental health and endangered wildlife worldwide, time is running out.
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Field to Fork – The Australian Game Cookbook celebrates the abundance that is Australia and its rich and varied wildlife. Whether you’re on the coast and enjoying fresh seafood, in the High Country with wild venison, on the water with ducks or in the field with some quail, this cookbook will give you the perfect recipe to make a mouth-watering gourmet wild meat dish.
As the winner of the 2012 Gourmand Cookbook Awards Best First Cookbook – Australia award, Field to Fork – The Australian Game Cookbook truly is a valuable addition to your kitchen.
Australia’s arid Outback is teeming with life…when you know where to look.
From taipan snakes and pelicans to hippie activists and hardline miners, John Read brings to life the characters, creatures and cultures of the Outback. Through vivid, personal stories he shares his experience as an ecologist making new discoveries; challenging conventional approaches to pastoralism, mining, tourism and environmental management; and witnessing the precarious balance of nature as species are pitted against the harsh climate of the Outback.
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