Australia’s once-successful biocontrol agents for rabbits are losing their edge. As destructive populations of feral bunnies ...

Exclusive: Australia faces 10 years of rabbit plagues due to the “dumb” decision not to fund a new virus to control numbers ...

Australia’s most destructive invasive species is staging a dramatic comeback as funding for biological control research and development stalls.

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 ...

Geographical distribution of rabbit population and lagovirus-positive samples from January 2015 to December 2022 in Australia. Rabbit population distribution was determined from a previous study and ...

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 ...

Rabbits are often seen as cute and harmless. Yet the creature is behind one of the globe’s most harmful biological invasions, ravaging Australia. With an annual ...