Rabbits

• It is estimated that the cost of agriculture and pastoralism, due to rabbits, in Australia is a high as $600 million annually.
• In the plagues of 1890, an estimated 36 million rabbits were found on one New South Wales property!
• Young rabbits around Mildura, southern New South Wales, make up 60-90% of local eagles, goshawks, harriers, kites and falcons.
• The CSIRO is determining the effectiveness of fertility control.
• The CSIRO is assessing the impact on rabbit populations in accordance with Calicivirus (RCD) and the predation of feral foxes and cats on rabbits.
• The CSIRO is determining the consequences of reduced rabbit abundance on native animals and plants.
• Approximately 9 rabbits eat was much as one sheep.

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