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Western Shield is DBCA’s lead wildlife recovery program. It is one of the biggest wildlife conservation programs ever undertaken in Australia and aims to recover and sustain wild populations of Western Australian native fauna threatened by foxes and feral cats. Western Shield does this through: ongoing effective landscape scale management of foxes and feral cats (primarily baiting, over a footprint of 3.8 million hectares most of which is conservation estate; native fauna population enhancement through translocation; adaptive management informed by scientific evidence from research and monitoring; and collaboration with industry, non-government organisations and community to promote native fauna conservation.