NSW Department of Primary Industries leads effort to control rabbits

Updated February 9 2017 - 5:59pm, first published 5:45pm
Damage: Native species, like this Mountain Pygmy-possum in the Kosciuszko National Park, are critically endangered due to habitat damage caused by rabbits. Photo: NSW DPI.
Damage: Native species, like this Mountain Pygmy-possum in the Kosciuszko National Park, are critically endangered due to habitat damage caused by rabbits. Photo: NSW DPI.

February 2017 marks a huge turning point in pest-rabbit management for Australia, with the national mail out of information to drive the release of RHDV1 K5, the Korean strain of a naturally-occurring rabbit virus first released here in 1996.

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