TNR for Feral Cats
Some believe that stray and feral cats should be killed in order to protect other species in the affected areas. Some believe that feral cats are invasive species that need to be eradicated. By the same logic, every single human being that isn’t living in Africa should be killed.
Trap-neuter-return (TNR) is a much better and much more effective option.
Darwinism: Survival of the fittest - and if these cats are the fittest then so be it. Some species will live and some species won’t. Humans don’t have the right to choose what animals live and what animals die.
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Theoretically no species is “native” or “invasive”. The Earth and its habitats and its islands and land bridges are constantly changing. New species come to new locations all the time. The concept of native or invasive species is not logical. So these cats in theory are not invasive.
https://www.nathanwinograd.com/there-are-no-alien-species-on-planet-earth/
“Invasion Biologists believe that certain plants or animals should be valued more than others if they were at a particular location “first.” When the species that were there “first” are competing for habitat with a species that came later, they assert that the latter should be eradicated. In championing such views, the movement paradoxically has embraced the use of traps, poisons, fire, and hunting, even when these cause harm, suffering, and environmental degradation.”
“plants and animals are being trapped, poisoned, hunted, burned, and destroyed by people who claim the mantel of environmentalism”
“On a tiny planet surrounded by the infinite emptiness of space, in a universe in which life is so exceedingly rare as to render every blade of grass, every insect that crawls, and every animal that walks the Earth an exquisite, wondrous rarity, it is breathtakingly myopic, arrogant, and quite simply inaccurate to label any living thing found anywhere on the planet which gave it life as “alien” or “non-native.” There is simply no such thing as an “invasive” species.”
