Rabbits Are Destroying Australia

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Rabbits are serious mammalian pest and invasive species in Australia causing Australia millions of dollars of damage crops and many other things I think that we need to destroy them because they are destroying Australia agriculturally and environmentally. Many methods have been tried to lower the rabbit population such as viruses, poisoning, and using spaniels to get rid of them. Feral rabbits have done a lot of harm. Many problems they have done are ‘’ Ruin pastures and crops, eat young trees, dig burrows that have become drains when it would rain and wash away precious topsoil so nothing could grow.’’ said in article by: Jo- Anne Goode. The rabbits have cause a lot towards the farmers. The idea is to get all the farmers involved so they

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