A resurgence of rabbit populations following recent rainfall is driving experts to urge for increased control measures.

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.

Australia is home to roughly 200 million rabbits, which are not native to the country and damage crops and ecosystems. Bettmann / Getty Images In Australia today, European wild rabbits eat through ...

Corey Bradshaw receives funding from the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (via Biosecurity South Australia), the Department of Primary Industries and Regions (South Australia), Foundation ...

Rabbits were first introduced to mainland Australia when five domestic animals were brought to Sydney on the First Fleet in 1788. At least 90 subsequent importations would be made before 1859 but none ...

ON Wardang Island, which lies to the west of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, a field test is now in progress of the virus of myxomatosis, as an agent in reducing rabbit population. The marked ...

CNN — What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia's "most devastating biological invasion," according to a new study by the Proceedings of ...

Researchers at CSIRO Livestock Industries' Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong – with the Department of Primary Industries Victoria – are investigating Koi herpesvirus as a means of ...

New study proves that single introduction of 24 animals shipped from England in 1859 caused the infamous invasion and argues that wild genetic traits gave these rabbits a devastating advantage over ...