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.

In inland Australia, rabbits have taken a severe toll on native wildlife since they were introduced in 1859. They may be small, but today rabbits are a key threat to 322 species of Australia's at-risk ...

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 ...

CANBERRA, Aug 11 (Reuters Life) - With rabbit numbers on the rise across Australia, conservationists are seeking to educate a new generation about the dangers posed by one of the country's worst pests ...

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 ...

Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of rabbits and a deliberately released virus keeps refusing to stay still. What ...