Grant Award View - GA128

This project will engage landholders and Friends of Parks groups on KI in feral cat control activities by training them to deploy and operate toxic Felixer™ grooming traps on private and public land. These groups will also be trained to verify Felixer mortalities through radio-tracking and to analyse images from grooming trap and motion-activated cameras to record target and non-target encounters. This will provide a vital opportunity to comprehensively field test and improve grooming trap effectiveness in a broad range of landscapes, establish a community of practice comprised of skilled operators, and collect data on cat abundance and distribution, in preparation for the onset of landscape-scale eradication of feral cats in 2019. Community control and monitoring activities will be coordinated and supported by a liaison officer who will also be responsible for handling toxic cartridges.