Feral cat trackers key to saving skink

AN endangered skink in the central Australian desert could be saved by indigenous feral cat trackers.

BAITING and trapping feral cats might be the most modern way to control their populations, but it's cat trackers that could help save an endangered lizard in the central Australian desert.

THERE are only about ten known communities of the great desert skink left in Australia, a species vulnerable to extinction thanks to the relentless pursuit by feral cats, which are decimating native populations of small mammals and reptiles.