Ecos, July 1st, 2003
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) has spread to every Australian state and territory.
The virus responsible, a calicivirus, has caused massive mortalities to the rabbit populations that have plagued the countryside and affected ecosystems since their introduction for sport by English pastoralists in 1859. With the crash in numbers then, w...
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