Imported into Australia in the mid-nineteenth century, rabbits have overrun much of the country, causing extensive agricultural and environmental damage and demonstrating the dangers of introducing non-native species into an area. Before the first...

In Australia, rabbits are the most serious mammalian pests, an invasive species whose destruction of habitats is responsible for the extinction or major decline of many native animals such as the Western Quoll. Annually, European Rabbits cause millions...

The crash in rabbit numbers across Australia is giving cause for cautious optimism as pastoralists and researchers work to keep the populations pinned down. SINCE ITS ESCAPE from Wardang Island, South Australia, in 1995 and subsequent deliberate releases, rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD)...

Tooth and Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia, by Brian Coman; Text, 1999, $24.95. THERE SHOULD BE more books like this splendid one: praises be to its author and its publisher. Its elegantly spacious and typo-free pages expound the realities...