Quote by Peter P. Marra Download Open image ““6.3 to 22.3 billion (median 12.3 billion) mammals were killed every year by outdoor cats.”” — Peter P. Marra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The final mortality numbers showed that cats killed between 1.3 and 4 billion (median 2.4 billion) birds per year, with unowned cats causing the… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“As in the United States, this makes cats the most significant source of direct anthropogenic bird mortality.” — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“Cats are opportunistic predators by nature. If given a chance to kill a bird or other small animal, most cats will take it. That… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“The cat, an introduced animal, is not needed here outside of buildings. It has disturbed the biological balance and has become a destructive force… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African. — Jason W Clay Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“Humans were six times more likely to kill each other than the average mammal.” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
“...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
“Certain bird species—herons, terns and ibises, for example—mesmerized Roosevelt. As president he insisted that killing one of these Florida exotics was a federal crime.”5” — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth’s biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“many leaders would rather postpone action—take a wait-and-see attitude—than proactively work toward a solution.” — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“Cats are opportunistic predators by nature. If given a chance to kill a bird or other small animal, most cats will take it. That… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“By the time Lyall set foot on the shores of Stephens Island, almost a third of New Zealand’s unique species were already extinct due… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“At the same time, they will also express great concern about the future that awaits us should this at once powerful and fragile web… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“As in the United States, this makes cats the most significant source of direct anthropogenic bird mortality.” — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“The final mortality numbers showed that cats killed between 1.3 and 4 billion (median 2.4 billion) birds per year, with unowned cats causing the… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“The truth is that trap-neuter-return makes people—not cats and certainly not wildlife—feel better.” — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith but by verification. —Thomas Huxley” — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“As with some examples we have shown earlier, these very vocal advocates seem to overlook the “genocide” of native animals perpetrated by introduced predators… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“If current trends are not reversed, it is expected that at least one of New Zealand’s five kiwi species will go extinct within the… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image