Wild rabbit figures dropping

Updated May 17 2017 - 4:33pm, first published 4:00pm
NSW DPI scientist and research director for the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, John Tracey and landholder Kevin Edwards are pleased with results from the new strain of rabbit biocontrol.
NSW DPI scientist and research director for the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, John Tracey and landholder Kevin Edwards are pleased with results from the new strain of rabbit biocontrol.

According to NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), researchers have seen an impressive 42 per cent average reduction in wild rabbit numbers at sites where the new Korean strain of the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus, RHDV1 K5, was released.

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