People who feed birds impact conservation | ScienceDaily People in many parts of the world feed birds in their backyards, often due to a desire to help wildlife or to connect with nature In the United States alone, over 57 million households in the
Woinarski, J. C. Z. , Murphy, B. P. , Legge, S. M. , Garnett, S . . . 50 birds are killed annually by pet cats, summing to 377 million birds killed yr-1 (i e , just over 1 million birds 51 per day) by all cats Feral cats include a significantly higher proportion of birds in their diet than do other 52 main mammalian predators The national tally of birds killed by cats in Australia is broadly comparable
Global Animal Slaughter Statistics Charts: 2022 Update New Zealand dominates cow slaughter (each year almost one cow is slaughtered per inhabitant) Israel, Belarus, and Guyana lead in the per capita slaughter of chickens Denmark slaughters the most pigs per capita (almost 3 pigs per year per person in the country), followed by Spain and the Netherlands
Unprecedented: How bird flu became an animal pandemic - BBC Moreover, the impact on animals has already been devastating Since it was first identified, the H5 strain of avian influenza and its variants have led to the slaughter of over half a billion