160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 | Meet the Ferals Ep 6 | ABC Australia
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- Australia has had a 160 year long battle to control the spread of hordes of hungry, rapidly multiplying rabbits, to prevent the damage they cause to farms. 📺Watch the full series here: • Meet The Ferals | Land...
Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 • Covet, catch or cull: ...
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 • Feral cats - Australia...
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 • The complex conundrum ...
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 • The devastating impact...
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 • Big bucks: feral goats...
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 • Damage, death & diseas...
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 • Outback camels: culls ...
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 • Battling to eliminate ...
Meet the Ferals looks at the devastating impact feral animals have on Australia's environment and agriculture and how farmers control introduced pests like cats, goats, pigs, rabbits and wild dogs.
Produced and presented by reporter Prue Adams, this series focuses on a different feral animal each episode. The content has been gathered from the three decades Landline has been on air, with background information and support provided through the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions.
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Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 th-cam.com/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/w-d-xo.html
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 th-cam.com/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/w-d-xo.html
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 th-cam.com/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/w-d-xo.html
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 th-cam.com/video/qLMehMZWq80/w-d-xo.html
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 th-cam.com/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/w-d-xo.html
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 th-cam.com/video/778Da7NCF6s/w-d-xo.html
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 th-cam.com/video/t22hkF0A6h8/w-d-xo.html
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 th-cam.com/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/w-d-xo.html
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 th-cam.com/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/w-d-xo.html
Australia vs Emus
Australia vs feral cats
Australia vs rabbits
Seems they fight a lot of wars against animals over there.
I think there is even a water buffalo war.
Don't forget their war against liberty over the last thirty years.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Australia vs feral goats
Australia vs camels
@W W damn you are going to lose most of the native animals. I read even the platypus are in trouble.
damn bro, Australia is losing so many wars vs animals lol
Whether feral hogs or feral cats lol
I wonder if its because some idiot decided to bring a random overseas animal into a complex environment and expect it to do nothing
@@betternot1871 don't forget their loss against the emus.
@@tdog152 how do you explan the loss 80 years ago to native emus
A War with EMUs
I don't understand why these are not being hunted for meat, in mass.
I suppose you didn't easily go hungry when the rabbits were in full force. Wonder if people can eat the virus ones
It’s a hot country, consider the logistics.
So true 👍
Exactly
Exactly - that turns it into a fortune - even if they eat the crops
They were known as underground mutton and fed a lot of people during the depression. Had a lot on the farm (NE VIC) in 1986 but haven’t seen one for 10years.
Rabbit is great bbq! Catch em ,prep em ,eat em! Feed the homeless.
I really want to taste them. Why aren't they available anymore? Do you know?Rabbit meat should be available in supermarkets, and restaurants.
Australia: we have the most poisonous animal of every species, sharks and crocodiles
Rabbit: takes over
They just can't win.
What does that tell you about how deadly our country is if rabbits can thrive here. Lol
So what a problem? In Australia, just make ground shaking (a mob of men jumps, f.ex.) - and with a miserable squeal, all the bunnies will fall down to Cosmos... XD
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Australian need to remember that Bugs bunny won in every episode against impossible odds.
Sorry,For adding a 1 like to your 69 likes
LOL!!!
i mean you are not wrong
Yes well we all know the yanks like to think that they're invincible despite overwhelming evidence the that is not the case lol
Good on you guys for going back time and time again to follow up on the story. A lot of people will do a story then set and forget. This time lapse shows your level of professional is im and your dedication on doing a story that does really effect Australia. Even though its something that not a lot of people talk about.
This has to be one of the few instances where a plague can be traced back to the guy who introduced the source.
Not anymore, mice have CLEARLY taken the crown.
Ikr 😒 and the vegans say relocating them how about we relocate them in there house 🥰🥰
@@lukemarchionne Ye
6 months later, and we are well into summer after a pretty cold winter and still no sign or a return of the mice plague.
Yup
They sure seem to have found my house this year. I'm catching as many as 3 a night.
Australia’s inadvertently breeding super bunnies.
@Tony .w lmao xd
3:22 I'm betting the historian has never had "tinned" rabbit. Pressure can rabbits the same as bone in chickens. No such thing as bad food, just bad cooks.
Yeah I saw that part and was like what does this guy have against rabbit meat lol
Can’t imagine they are wasting such healthy and delicious meat.
we should ship the rabbits to starving countries they would love to eat them
I thought that too Rabbit was a staple in the UK before chicken mass production
Rabbit is absolutely delicious
"Is it all you got, humans? We are rabbits, we stand tall and proud!"
you mean "we hop high and fast"!
More like screeching and running away
Annihilate humans and cultivate carrots
Get lost Peta guy
@@Zhang158 bhai
Joke sar ke upar se gaya tere
Meanwhile in Florida, the Everglades have been invaded by Burmese pythons that were released into the ecosystem by owners who no longer wanted them as pets.
Don't forget pigs, and a lot of different plants.
Them hogs will be good for the coming years
The pythons were introduced through a hurricane, not the owners themselves. Just a few hurricane survivor pythons ventured into the wilds and became invasive
Send the Pythons to Australia, bunny problem over.
@@wesleydaub8002 then youll have a python problem, mate
I’m still lamenting the catastrophic loss of wildlife in the fires of Australia. Still makes me sad.😢
then plant something besides eucalypts
Australia belongs to its native animals who live there for centuries it doesn't belong to criminals who come and grab their land
They bounce back and thrive quickly
Australia is made for fire
Australia has always had fires. It always recovers.
@@PacoQuerak, exactly.
This looks like what my grandpa described in western Kansas in the 1940s. They had the same rabbit drives where the town would all get to get together and club thousands of rabbits.
If it were in US, there would be a great American Rabbit hunting season.
there is a virus in the US that is killing jackrabbits and cottontails it is in all the western 6-1-21
Its called RHDV2
Been there, done that with the bison.
We have wild hogs in Texas and still can't control them despite people killing thousands of them.
@@oscarguijosa7881 the reason wild/feral hogs are not in control because ranchers find it profitable they let people hunt on their property for $200-300 dollars that is why these ranchers dont want to get rid of them in first place not all of them but few of those ranchers
Australia is so plagued with introduced animals, from cane toad, mouse, feral pig, rabbit, camel, water buffalo, feral cat, feral dog. The list goes on and on.
...and yet we still manage to produce food for not only this nation but for export markets as well.
"camel"?
Sounds like a living Hell. And now Covid vaccine mandate madness.
How r Camels?
@@josephastier7421 yeah we have the biggest camel population in the world
I raised rabbits in high school! Again in my first year as a newly Wed. We did not have 2 pennies to rub together, but we always had meat!
Smart
Snakes, spiders, sharks, jellyfish, rats and now rabbits, Australia is making so many enemies in animal kingdom.
That is not the same 💀 jellyfish, spiders, snakes are all native to Australia for millions of years
Er what? This is about invasive species. Sharks, snakes, spiders and jellyfish are native.
They’re unintentionally making super rabbits that are immune to every single virus
Or maybe the rabbit is good at social distancing so that the viruses can't spread 😂
Hope it can survive covid-19. We should eat the rabbit.
They most likely are gonna make super soldier rabbits lol
Everytime, there will be a small number of individuals, that will survive, and gain immunity, or escape the disease.
Wether it îs about humans, birds or animals, they will reproduce to replace the missing population.
It is called natural sellection.
This is how, strong individuals remain to reproduce.
Weak genetics are excluded from propagation.
Rabbits are the horniest animal alive.
I love rabbit they look so innocent.
But do you love them when you are a farmer and rabbits eat all your crops and then you go broke
@@stephenbrewster3878 you should support world hunger with these rabbits great for the world and great for economy. Why do you resort to chemical attacks.
@@seangaw6429 rabbit,, rabbies. Nah
lol im dead
@@stephenbrewster3878 farmers stop conquering rabbit land so they can leave in peace
In the UK we get rid of our small and large mammals by covering half the country in tarmac and simply driving around - the roads are absolutely coated with dead badgers, hedgehogs, foxes, deer and, of course, rabbits.
Wonderfully effective.
The European way lol
"how do you cull invasive species"
"car"
We do the same here, but more dirt roads due to the scale.
Ya U.K were you allow invasive cats to roam free, legally
Can we take a second to appreciate the rabbit emoji used in the title?
"Yo wanna take a few rabbits with us to australia to shoot?"
"Sure, what could go wrong"
Well they didn't know back then. But they sure did a few decades after.
Same logic put snakeheads in florida
"Yeah, it's not like the few surviving individuals will multiply into a population of around 100 million and devastate the local ecosystem, right?"
Bring only male rabbits or make sure to kill them all!
bunnies: "so they took us to this distant shore--and then they decided half a century later to whack us--"
They were brought out to be whacked in the first place. Same with foxes, which were introduced so that "gentlemen" could ride to hounds.
"Briiiight Eyyyesss... burning like fire..."
Every month as a child my father, born in 1915, and his 2 brothers and sister would walk across their Hilston farm paddocks banging pots and pans. His parents would string chicken wire in the corner of the paddock. The rabbits would hop out of their burrows and would be captured by the wire fence. They would spend the rest of the day clubbing the rabbits and skinning them.
Australia and their wars are so hilarious😂😂😂
Dude the u.s has alot of similar issues and lost actual wars 😂, not a bunch of feral animals running around in the middle of no where.
When my Chinese and Nigerian brothers see this, by shaking their head they will say " oh this is a big waste"
Well the chinese eat anything that lives and maybe the Nigerians should learn to grow some food in the 21st century
@@javiercantu9271. And Europeans should learn not to kill any moving thing.
@@akunajoshua they cant chinese ate them all
As Indonesian when saw this videos, yes this is waste... Waste everything....
@@javiercantu9271. I mean humans. Thought I was speaking about rabbits, that's way below your standards
We had a bunch when I was a kid. My dad gave a single shot .22 and a quarter a bunny. By the end of the summer all was well.
Good man your father.
Robber
Yer mate same but I didn’t get cash I got a pat on the back when I had shot gutted and skinned then!
Heaven forbid a teenager took his .22 on his bike to shoot rabbits down the creek!!
PS $18 a rabbit at the market!🤣
Im probably just being stupid but i barely understood any of that i got rabbit and i think .22 is a small caliber round mostly for small game?
@@dun0790 i dont know where youre from but i think rabbits are plenty small 🤣
'Breeding like rabbits' ahh now I know where that terminology comes from !
Yeah like playboy magazine
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "multiply like rabbits."
Tell the rabbits it's time for lock-down and social distancing.
Think they evolve so fast they figured it out. K5 not spreading...
that only works on 🐑🐑🐑
Rabbit: “we are stronger than humans. We don’t die from COVID-19.”
They dont understand English
No because then i will have to throw a boom stick down their burrows 😐
As we’re coming up on a depression, folks are going to need these rabbits
Why u think rabbit is a food source exactly? Like 10 of u posted this same thing. It's called 'rabbit starvation', it starts when you start eating rabbits. It's stringy fatless nasty meat, you will die of starvation eating rabbit. I'm glad u guys r so smart and we can all eat good rabbit in the future😂
@@stuntmangMUSIC well technically you can if you mix the rabbit with some vegetables, that should provide enough nourishment. I mean if vegans can live off veggies then we could think of it as a vegan diet but with rabbit.
To get rabbit starvation you have to be actively starving, eat only rabbit, nothing else, and those rabbits have to be actively starving as well. It’s a lean meat, tastes like chicken, and isn’t going to make anyone starve 🤦🏼♀️
They should breed them with a bigger breed instead of poisoning them... A bigger slower rabbit could be easily eradicated... As a food source...
And send them to people who do not have it food 😲😟😞
Fascinating! I remember eating rabbit stew regularly growing up.
In the 60s, Dad would shoot them. What a pity we can't find a way to use them for human consumption.
China would take them
love braised rabbit nanna style!
Rabbit friccasee yum
We've got the same problems here in NZ with both rabbits and the Ausi opossum, which is devastating to our native bush. Bloody greenies some years back just about killed the posi fur trade, not understanding what the threat was here in NZ. Fur has been blended with I think merino wool for garments. Govt does huge drops of 10.80 ,poison to help control them, because it is the most economical and in some areas the only way to do so. Hugely criticed for doing so of course, but generally speaking, I don't think we have a choice! I might be wrong, but I think the ring tailed opossum is protected in Ausi
Cats are the problem. Always are.
Don't forget wallabies.
I toured NZ in a camper van North and South Islands , my cousin lives in the north, and l remember asking him about these skid marks at the side of the road.
Apparently the opossums you could see the lights of their eye's at night, and the kiwis would swerve to run them over, saw quite a lot of flatten one's
Just send the vietnamese to hunt it for free...
When apex predator extinct by humans these thing happens with humans
Such a waste to poison them. They could feed a lot of hungry people and they do taste good.
Almost impossible to hunt or trap them down to non destructive levels
Exploiting them as food was not a solution. Rabbits were literally killing the continent, driving plants and animals to extinction, and if left alone they would have turned all Australia into a barren unlivable desert.
@@newatthis50 wrong....every animal that has had the bounty removed from hunting has exploded...rabbits for skin and meat saw a remarkable increase in numbers...the end of commercial fox hunting for skins again saw dramatic increases....dingo and wild dog bounty was removed in n.s.w and you guessed it the numbers have exploded even with mass baiting programs running....removal of pig boxes from small rural towns and....yep pigs numbers are going through the roof....hunting or trapping for pet food or human consumption would be a better option than playing god and infecting them with viruses...cos what could go wrong with that.....
Canning the meat and sending it to Africa ...they did in the war Times so they could și IT now
@@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM All of south east Asia is teeming with people. Java has 120 million people and is the size of Iowa. They could just shove the rabbit in a can and sell it to the Indonesians and other densely populated countries.
The whole biowarfare approach seems unnecessarily risky to me.
I reckon next pandemic in the making
Exactly
Deplorable and half of the world are starving.
Agree, a ridiculously extreme and uncalled for measure to take. It could come back around as a pandemic one day. Even the poison bait could cause issues for native animals, specifically the predators who eat the rabbits.
@Old Soul ..or we could teach our children one mate for life...
The video contains a lot of useful information, thank you for the video and wish you lots of health and success!
Its how the most dangerous animals are in Australia but their biggest problem is rabbits
They are extremely delicious. Don't use poison omg...
Well, start eating them and don't stop. Do something useful for a change.
@Benjamin Patterson that’s is the truest thing I’ve heard all day
I'm hungry now
You must not be a farmer. You can only eat so many rabbits, but wait until they destroy your crop, soil and livelihood. If I try my best everyday to kill and eat all of the rabbits on my farm, but my two neighbors never do the same... well you do the math.
@@Pochonesian I work on a farm but here in Oklahoma there really not a problem
Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. All I can picture is Bugs and Daffy 😂
🤣🤣
.... makes complete sense now..... "What's up Doc..." The Doc dude is an Auzzie virologist fella.... 😂😂
Love it!! I miss Loony Tunes on Sat mornings
Emus and kangaroos chilling in background
This is what when you mess with "MOTHER NATURE"
Fascinating series. I may watch more.
I lived in Australia in the late 60's. Me and my father hunted rabbits with
.22's every weekend for meat. Dad also hunted wild pigs. Rabbits were every where.
And why shouldnt they? The rabbits were brought in to provide food and pelts. Weren't they?
@@rochellelisa7959 yeah buy they over populated and destroyed sertain plant and eco sysyems. They were like roaches.....
@@rochellelisa7959 if you watched the video 24 were brought over for hunting on Christmas Day Lisa
@@SF-ku2hp in the USA numerous species became extinct due to hunting. I'm not saying there isn't a problem but poisoning and spreading virus actually does a lot of harm to domesticated animals and the environment doesnt it?
@@rochellelisa7959 The virus was engineered for rabbits. So invasive species do not harm the environment? Asian carp are not causing any harm to waterways in the midwest. Spotted lantern flies cause no harm? Invasive plants like kudzoo cause no harm to native plants?
Imagine if these rabbits suddenly became as carnivorous as prehistoric marsupials back in the Pleistocene.
They would eat mice...
There are still plenty of rabbits here! 👇 th-cam.com/video/UneMIa7Jiek/w-d-xo.html
The owner of the property had to knock down and rebuild his house from the amount of destruction they had caused.
Damn vruh, why is Australia always fighting an animal 😇
It was 1978 and one of the coldest winters in Texas near Dallas. Construction work had stopped and there was hardly any food in the house and I was stuck at home by roads cover in ice. The water pipes had been frozen for days, so living in the rural countryside if you needed to pee you just went outside. It was night and I had just flipped on the back porch light to make a yellow snow deposit, when I saw movement at the edge of the light. IT WAS A RABBIT! I eased back inside and retrieved my shotgun. Looking out the back door again, but no rabbit this time. So, I turned off the light and stood the shotgun against the wall by the door. About 30 minutes later I turned on the back porch light again and thought I saw something again at the edge of the light. I took careful aim and BLAM! I saw something flip up and then lay still. I went out to proudly claim my tasty prize only to find out that I had bagged myself a full grown empty oil can that had blown into the yard. Not to be dissuaded by a minor setback, I turned off the light and placed the weapon back in it's waiting position. About an hour later I went to peek again. Behold, a very recognizable Cottontail Rabbit was occupying the center of the beam of my back yard flood light. In seconds the shotgun came up, the rabbit bolted and I made a snap shot at a fleeing blur just as it made it to the edge of the light. Then all was still. I was hesitant to go look, remembering my last fiasco, but I trudged through the snow towards my prey's departure path. Standing at the edge of the light I couldn't see very well into the darkness beyond, but as my eyes became accustomed to the dark a small blob appeared just a few feet away. I had got him! Bearing my trophy back to the house I proudly proclaimed to my wife that meat was back on the menu! The wife boiled the rabbit and made dumplings to go with it to make it go further. We got two meals each from that small bundle of protein and we savored every bite. Now, normally I preferred my rabbit fried, as boiled rabbit tends to be stringy, but there was no complaints coming from either of us at that dinner table that night. So, just because some people might see rabbits as a problem, someone on the other side of the world might just see them as a blessing. I know we did!
Have you thought about writing professionally? You are a natural story teller.
@@uow513 I've written a few short stories for some magazines and a bit of poetry here and there, but I couldn't make a living at it. I'm an old man with lots of stories, most are true, but I have taken a few "liberties" to embellish some. Just to "enhance" the overall listening experience of course. While your encouragement is humbling and most appreciated, I'm probably better suited to sitting in a rocking chair reliving stories of my youth to a few young people who don't have many experiences of their own. I've lived a life that most people only dream of and I don't mind sharing it one bit! Good day and have a wonderful life!
I agree great story telling !! Please take the time to write a novel :-)
When they blew up that rabbit-hole reminds me of Bill Murray in the movie Caddyshack classic
Wild rabbit was the only meat my French relatives had during the war.... I've only ever had domestic rabbit in a mushroom and wine sauce..... too bad these Australian rabbits can't be better utilized.
Some years ago, Britain had the good fortune to lose well over 80% of its wild rabbits to disease both in England and Scotland.
These animals have cost farmers and plant nurseries in Britain fortunes in lost crops; their absence has been a blessing to growers and gardeners alike.
And now, some incredibly dim spark in the UK has decided they should be reintroduced, encouraging the building of 'rabbit hotels,' would you believe? It's not a native animal, never has been. I don't understand the thinking behind it.
So, keep on fighting them rabbits, Australia. They are a pest, and no matter if they are endangered in their own native country - that's a problem for that country's own wildlife services, not anyone else's.
Likely proposed by bureaucratic insanity from listening to a bunch of stupid college students who know nothing about what rabbit populations do to a country.
In northern and northwestern Canada and elsewhere, a lot of birds of prey, plus bobcats, lynxes, pumas, wolverines, weasels, martens, minks, wolves and wolverines, bears just about anything that eats meat, keep the rabbit population balanced. So they're not so much pests, as the natural food for a crapload of really interesting animals and birds. In other words, a natural balance system that didn't get messed up.
thats a dangerous game they are playing
mate these people are experts.
Only dangerous for the rabbits
@@nickhowatson4745 yes,mate these experts are not able to make effective vaccine of covid-19 till now....
So true
Experimenting
I agree
Stupid govenrment taking guns away from hunters.
The way the Rabbits suffer with injecting diseases is cruel.
Dredious honestly do you think farmers have the time to hunt rabbits all day? Of cause they don’t and that’s why they welcome shooters onto their farms to hunt them. Also with the removal of semi automatics it makes it harder to cull them as bolt action means one rabbit gets shot instead of two or three with a semi auto.
I use a 5 shot bolt action and I do pretty good, I don't need semi auto or auto, that's for sure.
@@trappermario40 I'm sorry, but as a recreational hunter myself, who also uses a 5-shot bolt action, there is no way that we will ever shoot enough of them to make a difference.
It is a shame about self-loading rimfires and shotguns being so heavily restricted. At least Ardern showed a little bit more knowledge and sense than Howard.
Rabbits breed much faster than hunters can kill them in Australia.
@@scott_itall8638 No animal cruelty here. Move on nothing to see here.
First the emu war, now it's time for the rabbit war.
summer 2021 i had a large cotton tail rabbit in my yard sometimes who like to sunbath in the grass, we have a fenced in yard and most of our neighbors do not, so i think the rabbit felt safe., but there are alot of hawks, owls, escaped dogs, coyotes, foxes to keep rabbits in check
Khaleesivirus was also quite devastating to the city of King's Landing.
😂😂Underrated
It reduced a man into "She's much kween", "We need allies", and "I don't know what else to say".
Wow
I was thinking about that!!
😆😆 nice...
Australia: pests! *waging biological warfare against rabbits*
Indonesia: say what mate? *munching on rabbit satay*
Wow so much food in Australia
Not only did Australia lose a war against emus, they're losing a war against RABBITS
Bruh you Americans are losing to pythons and hogs and actually lost real wars to farmers 😂😂😂
Australia as a feral cat problem
A rabbit problem
A wild boar problem
Call me , I'm the problem solver
Only thing that the Australians need to provide is barbecue sauce
and some fire
@@redactedgamersgd1788 , I have my own fire , I graduated from firebug to arsonist
Reminds me of how wolves being reintroduced improved the ecosystem of yellowstone national park.
do you think what im thinkiing :)
Wow! Couldn't help thinking of Richard Adam's WATERSHIP DOWN!
It safe to say that Bugs Bunny is not a favorite Loony Toon in Australia.
Rabbit is delicious. Don't poison them hunt & BBQ them, share with friends.
Agreed all the rubbish sold in supermarkets and fast food joints................... We need 'bigger thinkers' who see the whole picture and have a will to implemtn alas they are missing.
I dont think you understad how many there are they did try hunting them if you watched the entire video, Hunt and bbq them is such a naive way of thinking
Idiot
There are way more than you could ever eat.
max bäckman lol Australians has no idea of how cooking rabbit. Check rabbit cuisine in China, many people love it. Demand is over supply.
The hell is wrong with Australia? I clicked on one feral cat video, and then suddenly every goddamn species is a feral natural threat in Australia?
Australia is a pussy
dsa asd sama
I clicked on the same video
@@lachlanshaw4684 you are totally wrong my friend. The top 4 food exporters in the world are China, India, Brazil, and.....wait for it, wait for it.....yeah, the U.S.A. Australia isn't in the top 5. Sorry. I hope the truth doesn't hurt your feelings.
Because australia has a very fragile,unice ecosystem. Imported animals are throwing the balance out wack and endager the native animals.
It happens al over the world, the pythons in the Everglades for example, but Australias species are suffering pretty hard.
Wow...! This is impressive journalism.
Oh yeah thanks for bringing them over to NZ too Oz
24 years after your going back that is journalism right there
Wonderful isn't it. I am so proud of our ABC.
That’s what happens when the predators have been eliminated
Michael McLeod rabbits have very few natural predators in numbers too small to combat their quick-to-breed nature.
Please enlighten us as to what predators have been eliminated from Australia
They were introduced, where there were not enough predators.
There are no natural predators of rabbits in /Australia/.
@@harry80124hill the tiger dog
Free food (rabbit) is blessing, not a problem. It can even be exported.
Nice one Thomas Austin
“As soon as there’s one there’s many”
Has any one told her it takes two rabbits to make a baby
That was exactly what I thought while watching the video😂😂😂.
“We’ve infected them with deadly viruses” 😳 like something right out of Chyna’s playbook
GMO VlRUSES
These virus exist rabbit populations in other places in the world just not in Australia. So if they could cause a pandemic it would have stated a long time ago.
Thanks. ✌🏻👊
Now lets do this with feral cats.
These are clean animals, and very organic too.
Find a market for them, Singapore, Hongkong, and China.
Yeah, tell the Chinese that Australian rabbits have healing properties
U have poisoned and "virused" them; now becoming contagious, poisonous, non marketable/consumable. Not even be fertilizers. Self induced unsolvable problem. Too bad!
@@williamlau7179 actually some rural land in Australia has clean rabbits we hunt and eat em but they are ours😆😂
Nooo, Singapore DONT eat rabbits, I don’t see any
Bring them to vietnam and these rabbit would be exctinct i swear
Imagine the rabbits creating a virus that killed humans.
Oh wait!
imagine being damn near on the lowest part of the food chain lul gotta suck
🐇💭💥💨💨NOT UNTILL THEY..START HUNTING n EATING HUMANz FIRST💨😷🍼
@@cockruukovo3237 give it to me also
This reminds me of a childrens story I remember from my childhood. "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly".
The rabbit will never be defeated. Long live the Rabbit! 2024-Forever! 🐰🇱🇷🐇
Emus, cane toads, feral cats and rabbits....Australia just can't catch a break..
At least the emus were already bloody here 🤷♂🤣🤣
Eat them! Greetings from Italy!!!
Near Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1960s when you would get out of car it would look like the desert would move, then a few years later you would see no jackrabbits. I was told it was just a cycle
I live in Durham, UK, rabbits never returned after the first blast of mexamotosis. Back in the 60s and 70s, I never even saw a rabbit, and I lived in a very rural place. It was a 100% kill. Maybe the virus was more effective in certain areas? Any thoughts?
We humans are in millions as well, imagine another species starts culling us.
*billions
We humans destroy everything even down to ourselves.
Around 7.6 billion.
We are on top of the chain. We only kill each other...
The government should promote and all year round rabbit hunting season and allow for spotlight hunting which is the best and most efficient method for rabbit and European hare. The ban on semiauto rifles in .22 rimfire caliber should be lifted and ammunition subsidized to commercial hunters.
There already is an all year round rabbit hunting season on Rabbits under spotlight. No bag limits
They should still lift the ban on semiautomatic rifles of all kinds and take the criminals out of the population instead.. Australia protects criminals and attacks victims of crime and i have personal experience of this.. Australia is a country where murders can be out of jail in a couple of months to for murdering a baby, it's disgusting what has happened to this once great country
This is really disturbing watching this while dealing with a pandemic
I must be going crazy but I know I've seen like 3 or 4 of these documentaries about some type of animal taking over Australia.
Rabbits gonna be food for so many people... but they lives are wasted 🐇
Ikr
The rabbits aren't meant to live in Australia
For you, but a more people keep that as pets, and dare not eat rabbits, cuz they are toooooooooooooooo cute.
@@mycuterabbits7754 xDDDD you are considering PETS this plague? omg
I can’t say us Aussies are fond of eating rabbits, lots of people here would consider them as “pets” rather than “food”.
Man would destroy everything
They are so cute. 😲
Sad. Think how devastated Bug's Bunny and Rodger Rabbit would be if he saw this.
love how in many other countries rabbit is seen as a delicacy and their fur as a luxury - and in Australia you just burn them
yeah really a new market could be opened if they took advantage of it they could mak emillions
Do they eat them ?
@@punker4Real too expensive and too slow. Not to mention it incentivises people to breed them. See 'The Cobra Effect'.
In the early 70's I use to trap rabbits and could make nearly the equivalent to my weekly wage on the weekend with just 10 rabbit traps. I use to get $2 per rabbit and had more orders than I could handle. Although we look back now and say the traps were cruel, I really miss my trapping day's.
That fur and meat is worth something somewhere
Those were the days were Australia wasn't PC and I would have loved to live in that time
@@samjennings6791 And killing them horribly with viruses is PC? what did I miss??
Australia apparently needs you and your skill set
There's nothing cruel about trapping. It's been done for as long as humans have existed, and it's still being done around the world to protect ecosystems. The trappers in American states like Pennsylvania show a great example of how to do trapping ethically
Teams of ferrets,with jack russels ,and their handlers.!
A Jack Russel and a .22. Kept the population down on my parents property and had many good feeds!.
Physical barriers and specialized fences are the only solution. Poisons always make their way back to the human food chain.
Any wild animal can dig making physical barriers useless.
Why not introduce a predator?
Why dont they just eat all those rabbits? They are expensive on my country lol
Guillermo C too lazy to put in the work
"Up to a million rabbits a year were killed for canning."
Brian D 👍, in the States we learned about the Australia rabbit problem in grade school, I’m 57, lol, you need to step up production.
@@Reitz86 same here...and they still couldn't control rabbits lol
Very Intelligent.
Rabbits for the last 160 years
Australians: *"Kill the critters"*
When rabbits are close to extinction
Australians: *"save them from extinction"*