The farmers of Australia seem to be still troubled by rabbits, which breed in that country at a most enormous rate. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Although a far cry from the estimated 10 billion rabbits that infested Australia a century ago, some 200 million currently inhabit the continent and their numbers are again threatening to explode.

For decades, Australia's countryside was ravaged by billions of rabbits. So in the 1950s, the government released the disease myxomatosis to kill off the rabbit plague. We hear from farmer ...