The lack of planning and funding means Australia has been left in the lurch as the two viruses used to keep rabbit numbers down, myxamotis and the rabbit calicivirus, have stopped working. Meanwhile ...
Australia has been locked in a battle to control rabbits since the 1950s. Rabbits cause huge damage to our environment. They compete with native species, overgraze native plants and cause erosion.
Sound suppressors on firearms, improved biological controls and even ferrets are being touted as tools to reduce Tasmania's booming wild rabbit population.
A consortium of ten regional councils, including the Auckland Regional Council, has gained approval from the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) to import batches of the Rabbit Haemorrhagic ...
Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of ...