A new report on New South Wales state's most destructive species reveals that feral cats are the greatest risk to Australia's native fauna, affecting almost 120 threatened species or populations of animals, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

They eat almost anything that moves, including small marsupials, lizards, birds and spiders.

A recent food contest in Alice Springs featured wild cat stew as a solution, says a BBC report.

The meat is said to taste like a cross between rabbit and chicken.

The recipe, which includes a dash of lemongrass, three cups of quandong, which is a sweet desert fruit, and bush plums and mistletoe berries, impressed some of the judges.

But marinated wild cat was not to everyone's taste. One of the competition judges found the meat impossibly tough and had to politely excuse herself and spit it out in a back room, says the BBC report.

Wild cats are considered good eating by some Aborigines, who roast the animals on an open fire.

This outback cuisine comes with a health warning: Scientists have said that people eating wild cats could be exposed to harmful bacteria or toxins.