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Scientists ponder high rabbit population

Complications in the eradication plans raise questions

By ABC online - 24th October 2000 - Back to News

Scientists believe they have worked out why Gippsland's rabbit populations have not been significantly reduced by the calisi virus. Rabbits in other drier areas of the state, particularly the north-west, have almost been wiped out by the disease.

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