Don’t blame cats for destroying wildlife, shaky logic is leading to moral panic

WILLIAM S. LYNN, ET AL: Conservationists and the media often claim that cats are a main contributor to a mass extinction, a catastrophic loss of species due to human activities, like habitat degradation and the killing of wildlife. As an interdisciplinary team of scientists and ethicists studying animals in conservation, we examined this claim and … Continue reading Don’t blame cats for destroying wildlife, shaky logic is leading to moral panic