The rabbit in Australia back in the news.

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Thanks for posting, what an interesting read. I was informed about that Calicivirus in the early 1980s, I new it wiped out the local rabbit population. We went to Wales on a rabbit hunting trip and were disappointed at the lack of bunnies. Our leader phoned someone in the Natural History Museum and was given some' indication that a new virus was about? It was years later in England that reports of low rabbit numbers were being reported.

BC.
 
bullet chucker said:
Thanks for posting, what an interesting read. I was informed about that Calicivirus in the early 1980s, I new it wiped out the local rabbit population. We went to Wales on a rabbit hunting trip and were disappointed at the lack of bunnies. Our leader phoned someone in the Natural History Museum and was given some' indication that a new virus was about? It was years later in England that reports of low rabbit numbers were being reported.

BC.
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We have got them forever it seems and they are so resilient especially after what they have gone through as a species here.
I can remember them in the fifties going about with my old man ferreting. I look back with a faint memory of rabbits not moving as you passed them two yards away,not squatting just sitting.
The only way is to fence them out and that now is cost prohibitive.
 
Here in England, the rabbit has never really recovered from the three-pronged attack of myxomatosis, VHD, and predators. Unlike Australia, there are very few areas where rabbits are not controlled by one or other of these three.
In Devon, like many other areas, there are places where a few rabbits build up and others where they seem to have all but disappeared. Man-made viruses are a pretty horrendous way of dealing with wildlife, but in the case of Australia, clearly, something has to be done.
As has already been said, a very interesting article.
 
John Gryphon said:
Yes and you will also find this an interesting one....staggering numbers.

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That was a really fascinating read, thanks for posting it. Myxi first arrived in my area in the early fifties, and they've never recovered. It still crops up annually, and since the weather has changed, we get it all year round, unlike a few years ago when it generally only appeared in summer. I have a good friend who has a farm near Emerald in Queensland, and they have, at present, more problems from pigs than rabbits!
 
I used to keep the numbers down on a few local farms, but it has been years since I last seen any.





Steve.
 
Still don't see rabbits in any great numbers on the places I hunt in the New England NSW area. Sure they are there but nothing like the numbers back in the 70's when I was hunting with Pop.
 
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