This page contains links to selected media reports on rabbit issues and rabbit control.
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K5 effective in Lincoln National Park
The K5 strain of RHDV1 reduced wild rabbit numbers by 80% in the Lincoln National Park on SA’s Eyre Peninsula. For more information, see the... Continue reading→
Conservation starts with rabbit control.
Concerted efforts at rabbit control by the Trust for Nature on their Ned’s Corner property are paying off. The Trust purchased the property west of... Continue reading→
Can rabbits control cats?
Can controlling rabbits control feral cats and help restore native species? The University of Tasmania is offering three PhD scholarships to find out, with field... Continue reading→
Wardang Island’s rabbit history
The historic role of Wardang Island in the development of bio-controls for wild rabbits has been recognized with an update to signage at the Port... Continue reading→
The arms race continues – myxoma vs wild rabbits
The myxoma virus found in Australia has evolved to better suppress the immune system of rabbits, according to a team of Australian and American researchers.... Continue reading→
Grants for rabbit control
The Victorian Rabbit Action Network is supporting a Victorian grants program to help with rabbit control. For more information, see the article in The Courier. Continue reading→
RFA Chairman’s Update
Fresh insights into all things RFA are available in the Chairman’s Reports, from May and August, 2017.
10 Billion Rabbits
Author of ‘Those Wild Rabbits’, Bruce Munday, is interviewed on the ABC Radio’s ‘Conversations’. Listen to the ABC interview for some great yarns about bunnies... Continue reading→
90 Years & Still Changing. RFA helps Koonamore.
The Koonamore vegetation monitoring reserve shows rabbit control is essential for the regeneration of many tree and shrub seedlings – and a donation from RFA... Continue reading→
Additional rabbit bio-control feasibility to be studied.
Plans are afoot to investigate the potential to add two parasites to the armoury in the battle against wild rabbits. Eimeria intestinalis and Eimeria flavescens... Continue reading→
Enlisting flies to track the spread of RHDV
RFA has funded a novel project to help track the spread of rabbit viruses across Australia. It is now accepted that flies are a vector... Continue reading→
How the bunny-rabbit shaped Australia
Bruce Munday, author of RFA supported book ‘Those Wild Rabbits’, has been interviewed on ABC Radio National by Phillip Adams. To hear the interview online,... Continue reading→