Cyprus may have world’s highest stray cat ratio, study finds

Cyprus’s stray cat population has surpassed 2 million, more than double the country’s human population of under 1 million, according to a new scientific study that warns of a deepening welfare and population management crisis.

The study, by researchers Jamie L. DeLeeuw and Harry Eckman and published in the international journal Frontiers in Animal Science, is based on extensive interviews with 44 professionals and volunteers working in the field in Cyprus, Greece and Portugal. It documents a...