Feral rabbit population ‘surge’ predicted across Australia thanks to La Niña rainfall

Clint Taylor, who works for Bush Heritage Australia at Bon Bon Station — a former sheep property that is almost the size of Sydney — is all too familiar with the destruction rabbits can cause.

In 2019 the organisation and the station, based near Roxby Downs in South Australia’s far north, was awarded a $10,000 grant through the local Natural Resource Management Board to undertake rabbit mapping and control.

“We’ve prioritised about 10,000 hectares to get mapped as part of that…