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 ...

Rabbits were first introduced to mainland Australia when five domestic animals ... have long assumed that the country’s ‘rabbit plague’ began at Barwon Park, the estate of Thomas Austin ...

Andrew Cox, chief executive of the Invasive Species Council , has warned that land managers are concerned feral deer will become "Australia's next rabbit plague". READ MORE: Hezbollah leader vows ...

The worst rabbit plague in decades in the Adelaide Hills ... the authority that provides tips to landholders on rabbit control. In South Australia, landholders are legally responsible for ...

Australia’s top science agency the CSIRO released the world’s first vertebrate pest biocontrol in 1950, in a desperate bid to quell the rabbit plague. The virus, known as myxomatosis or myxo ...

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 ...