It takes less than one rabbit per hectare to prevent the successful regeneration of many of our common native trees and shrubs. This means that many rabbit-infested patches of remnant native vegetation can’t sustain themselves naturally and are in slow decline – but unfortunately this often goes unnoticed.
Whether you are a land-owner who conserves some uncleared woodland on the farm or belong to a Landcare group managing vegetation along a roadside, this quick assessment method will help you decide if rabbits are a problem and what action you need to take. National Park managers will also find this a useful tool for alerting them to problems.
| Reference type: | Generic |
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| Author: | Brian Cooke, Steve McPhee and Quentin Hart |
| Date (dd/mm/yyyy): | null |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Secondary title: | How to rapidly assess a rabbit problem and take action |
| Place published: | Place Published |
| Publisher: | Bureau of Rural Sciences |
| Pages: | 16 pp |
| Notes: | Notes |
| Region: | Australia - national |
| Documents: | Rabbits: a threat to conservation & natural resource management (3Mb PDF) |
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Tags: ASSESSMENT, Conservation, damage, impact, land management, native vegetation, natural resource management, rabbit, RABBITS, regeneration
