Be clear on what problems rabbits cause, have confidence rabbit control will alleviate the problem, and follow best practice using humane methods, are keys to an ethical, humane rabbit control program as outlined in a Toolkit produced by Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia. The Toolkit was developed following a series of online workshops and follow-up work […]
Could rabbits become part of the bird flu story in Australia? A Blog by Dr Brian Cooke (available here) provides information gleaned internationally and discusses ways in which rabbits could be involved. Risk is a factor of likelihood of occurrence and the severity of any impact should it occur. The Blog helps identify possible hazards […]
Rabbits are environmental disruptors in Australia and a threat to the survival of 41 native vertebrate species, including glossy black-cockatoos. In science week we acknowledge the researchers helping understand and manage such relationships.
Over thirty five years worth of tissue and blood samples from Australia’s longest running rabbit monitoring site at Turretfield Research Centre (SA) were at risk of being lost until Rabbit-Free Australia and a team of researchers stepped in to secure their future. Those samples, and others from sites around Australia and remote islands, were catalogued, […]
Registration is now open for the 2026 Rabbit R&D Webinar, available here. This year the theme is ‘Rabbit management: New technologies for best practice rabbit control’. The aim of the free 2 hour Webinar is to bring together researchers and rabbit managers with new information for the effective, humane control of wild rabbits. It will include the […]
Rabbit-Free Australia has been advocating nationally for strategic rabbit control, especially warren ripping, to be a standard component of drought relief and regional resilience programs. It is pleasing to see that rabbit control is available to landholders as part of a $760,000 investment through the SA government’s Drought Response program. See here for more information. […]
100 years ago the most degraded part of a pastoral property near Yunta (SA) was fenced off to study the recovery of vegetation once stock had been removed. The idea of fencing out stock and monitoring ecological change was a science innovation of the time. Recovery of many species was slow until a vigilant campaign […]
Rabbits are popping up in urban and peri-urban areas across the nation and can be difficult to control. Fewer control options are available and communities can have mixed views on whether control should occur or not. Through a Peri-Urban Rabbit Forum, Rabbit-Free Australia has been working with managers from all states to understand the issues […]
Natarsha McPherson and Bertram Ostendorf have recently published on a project from the Nullarbor Plains, ‘Detecting rabbit and wombat warrens in broad-scale satellite imagery’. They found significant correlation between field and satellite based estimates of warrens with a user accuracy of 91% for wombats and 81% for rabbits. However the resolution of Google Earth and […]
The 2025 Rabbit R&D Webinar, hosted by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions and Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia, will focus on gene-drive technology. It will bring researchers and practitioners together to help people understand this rapidly developing technology and enable informed discussions within communities about its potential for rabbit control and the issues involved. The […]