Australia has been locked in a battle to control rabbits since the 1950s. Rabbits cause huge damage to our environment. They compete with native species, overgraze native plants and cause erosion.

European rabbits have plagued the Australian environment since 1859, when they were introduced to Australia near Geelong in Victoria. The spread of rabbits over Britain took 700 years. However, in ...

Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of ...