***STOP PRESS!!!  All gifts DOUBLED

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(courtesy of one of our most generous and thoughtful bilby lovers)

There’s a pressing issue that I simply cannot ignore.

It’s something that risks seriously jeopardising the work we have done to date: the threat of feral cats.

I urge you to donate now so that we can get on top of this terrible threat to our natives throughout Currawinya as soon as possible.

We are already seeing an increasing number of cat tracks around the fence. For the protection of our bilbies, we must manage this current explosion of feral cats at Currawinya National Park.

At the current perimeter outside the fence that we are allowed to patrol, our tiny team is just managing to keep the cats at bay.

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But when our protected area expands to ten times the current size, we’re going to need all the help we can get to continue keeping bilbies safe from predators.
If you’ve already sent your Christmas gift, thank you!

If you haven’t yet donated, please act now. Your funds will go straight towards the payment we urgently need to make so that we can acquire four new Felixers as well as other bilby saving equipment.

Why are these Felixers so effective?

Felixers are automated – As you can imagine, nimble feral cats are incredibly hard to catch. But these traps are movement triggered and operated by AI cameras. When the targeted predator approaches, the devices spray poison. Felixers can even tell the difference between a cat and a native animal (like a bilby).

Felixers are safe for the environment - Built by conservationists, they use sodium fluoroacetate, better known as 1080. It’s a naturally occurring toxin found in more than 30 species of native Australian plants. It is safe in the environment as it dilutes into harmless compounds in water and gets absorbed by the bacteria in soil.

Felixers are no threat to native wildlife, like our precious bilbies - Many of Australia’s native wildlife have a natural tolerance to 1080, unlike introduced invasive species, like feral cats and foxes. So even if a native animal gets exposed to the sprayed substance, they’ll be ok!

Felixers are humane - Knowing other animals won’t be harmed by 1080 poison allows the dose administered by the Felixer to be set to a higher level, which means a quicker, more humane death for the targeted predator.

But here’s the catch... Felixers are exorbitantly expensive to use—in fact, you can't even buy them. We’ll need to rent four more of the devices for 30 months and it’ll cost $107,000.

And even after we can acquire the additional Felixers, we’ll need to have staff and trained volunteers ready to monitor and manage the traps after they are placed.

We have made so much incredible progress, thanks to the generosity of our bilby loving community who have been able to finance each small step we take.

With big things coming up, we need to move urgently to save bilby lives.

With my best wishes,

Kev Bradley
CEO
Save the Bilby Fund

Please donate what you can today​​​​​​​