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[โ€“] icydefiance@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

[โ€“] Gladaed@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

I am not arguing that, I am saying that populations would still be much high if more and more suitable habitat existed. The issue being that you cannot count lack of animals due to habitat via mortality.