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.

European rabbits have plagued the Australian environment since 1859, when they were introduced to Australia near Geelong in Victoria. The spread of rabbits over Britain took 700 years. However, in ...

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Farmers, landowners and conservationists across Australia are benefiting from an unexpected, combined effect of two biological controls that target feral populations of European rabbits (Oryctolagus ...

Rabbit populations have surged across Australia, prompting urgent calls for Queensland landowners to destroy warrens before the pest invasion spreads north. At a property in Highfields owned by Megan ...

Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of ...

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Optimal seasonal conditions have led to a boom in feral rabbit numbers along the Victoria-New South Wales border. The rabbits are causing damage on farms, in towns and on sports ovals. Australia's ...