Cats were introduced to the area about 200 years ago by European settlers and bred and spread rapidly across the Australian continent and New Zealand. According to one estimate, the approximately 20 million cats in Australia kill around 75 million native animals a day.
猫在200年前由欧洲移民带到澳洲,大量繁殖后迅速遍布整个澳洲大陆以及新西兰。有人估计,澳大利亚大约有2000万只猫,它们每天杀死约7500万本土动物。
Australiais thought to have one of the worst extinction records in the world, losing about 29 native mammal species since the European arrival. It now lists some 1,800 species as under threat.
澳大利亚被认为是世界上物种灭绝最严重的地方之一,自欧洲殖民者到来,共有约29个本土哺乳类物种消失。现在有约1800个物种被列入濒危物种名单。
The government has also proposed a ‘cat cull’ to kill 2 million cats in a bid to preserve other species. The proposal has proved controversial and been condemned by animal rights activists. Speaking last week, the French actress Brigitte Bardot said the country was “sullied by the blood of millions of innocent animals.”
澳政府还提出了一项“宰杀宠物猫”提案,拟为保护其他物种宰杀200万只猫。这个提案饱受争议,遭到动物权益保护人士的谴责。法国女演员碧姬·芭杜(Brigitte Bardot)上周表示,澳大利亚“沾满了数百万无辜动物的鲜血。”
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