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Vic Rabbit Action Network wins UN award.
Victoria’s Rabbit Action Network has gained international acclaim with a United Nations Public Service award, for ‘delivering more inclusive and equitable services’. The program, delivered... Continue reading→
Rabbit hotspots – located by a new model of rabbit populations
Spotlight counts of rabbits from 116 sites across Australia, taken over 41 years, have enabled modellers to better understand what makes a ‘rabbit hotspot’ –... Continue reading→
Public engagement essential for invasive animal control
A mix of recent stories from New Zealand highlight the importance of controlling invasive species for the benefit of native plants and animals – and... Continue reading→
Controlling ferals so native plants and animals survive.
Several recent news stories highlight the importance of controlling feral animals, like rabbits, cats and foxes, in order to restore native ecosystems. Scientists have shown... Continue reading→
Culling overabundant wildlife vs the alternatives
‘If overabundant wildlife populations are not reduced by some means, the result must be death by starvation or disease coupled with extensive damage to other... Continue reading→
‘Gene drive’ for mammals
‘Gene drive’ technology (where genome editing increases the likelihood of certain traits being inherited) has now been applied to mammals. Previously trialled on insects, the... Continue reading→
Award Winning K5 in the News
The RHDV1-K5 team from the Centre for Invasive Species (CISS) has won a National Biosecurity Award for work in the 2017 release and monitoring of... Continue reading→
Coorong dunes recover thanks to rabbit controls
Successive biological controls for rabbits have been the most important factor in the recovery of sand dunes along the Coorong in South Australia. Researchers from... Continue reading→
Rabbits – Australia’s worst invasive species
Rabbits negatively impact more threatened species in Australia than does any other invasive species, according to the Threatened Species Recovery Hub. Over 300 threatened native... Continue reading→
Sociology & Ecology – choosing what to value most
Calls for ‘compassionate conservation’ (the protection of individual wild animals, regardless of whether they are native or an introduced invasive species) may be rebuffed by... Continue reading→
Rabbits get the ‘hooroo’ from Goorooyarroo
A cull of rabbits from the Goorooyarroo nature reserve, Canberra, is the next step in the expansion of a protected area and the reintroduction of... Continue reading→
Bilbies to board Great Southern Ark
A 17 km long fence across southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia will be the foundation to a 120,000 hectare sanctuary, aimed at ‘re-wilding’ the... Continue reading→