Long-footed potoroo

Potorous longipes

Blamed on cats

IUCN status: Vulnerable

EPBC Predator Threat Rating: High

IUCN claim: Not attributed

Studies in support

No studies

Studies not in support

Long-footed potoroo and cat occupancy were not correlated (Robley et al. 2022).

Is the threat claim evidence-based?

No studies were found linking cats to long-footed potoroos.

Evidence linking Potorous longipes to cats. Systematic review of evidence for an association between Potorous longipes and cats. Positive studies are in support of the hypothesis that cats contribute to the decline of Potorous longipes, negative studies are not in support. Predation studies include studies documenting hunting or scavenging; baiting studies are associations between poison baiting and threatened mammal abundance where information on predator abundance is not provided; population studies are associations between threatened mammal and predator abundance. Gold borders indicate studies that meet qualities of scientific rigour. See methods section in Wallach and Lundgren 2025 for details on evidence categories.
Evidence linking Potorous longipes to cats. Systematic review of evidence for an association between Potorous longipes and cats. Positive studies are in support of the hypothesis that cats contribute to the decline of Potorous longipes, negative studies are not in support. Predation studies include studies documenting hunting or scavenging; baiting studies are associations between poison baiting and threatened mammal abundance where information on predator abundance is not provided; population studies are associations between threatened mammal and predator abundance. Gold borders indicate studies that meet qualities of scientific rigour. See methods section in Wallach and Lundgren 2025 for details on evidence categories.

References

EPBC. (2015) Threat Abatement Plan for Predation by Feral Cats. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Department of Environment, Government of Australia. (Table A1).

IUCN Red List. https://www.iucnredlist.org/ Accessed June 2023

Robley, A.J., Cally, J.G., Murray, A., Bluff, L., Collyer, A., Borg, N. and Phillips, L., 2022. The response of native species to the 2019–20 bushfires and introduced predators in far East Gippsland. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 329. Department of Environment. Land, Water and Planning, Heidelberg.

Wallach A.D., Lundgren E.J. (2025) Review of evidence that foxes and cats cause extinctions of Australia’s endemic mammals. BioScience. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf046