160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 | Meet the Ferals Ep 6 | ABC Australia

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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[@lajoyalobos2009]

Australia vs Emus Australia vs feral cats Australia vs rabbits Seems they fight a lot of wars against animals over there.

[@danijelandroid]

I think there is even a water buffalo war.

[@ianmackenzie686]

Don't forget their war against liberty over the last thirty years.

[@magicassassin1947]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gultajsingh8095]

Australia vs feral goats Australia vs camels

[@otroflores91]

@W W damn you are going to lose most of the native animals. I read even the platypus are in trouble.

[@yonissaid714]

damn bro, Australia is losing so many wars vs animals lol

[@betternot1871]

Whether feral hogs or feral cats lol

[@tdog152]

I wonder if its because some idiot decided to bring a random overseas animal into a complex environment and expect it to do nothing

[@jonathanwhite3507]

@@betternot1871 don't forget their loss against the emus.

[@mikehanner3489]

@@tdog152 how do you explan the loss 80 years ago to native emus

[@striveknight4782]

A War with EMUs

[@glenbaker4024]

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.

[@timnavarrette3274]

Rabbit is great bbq! Catch em ,prep em ,eat em! Feed the homeless.

[@djha4287]

I really want to taste them. Why aren't they available anymore? Do you know?Rabbit meat should be available in supermarkets, and restaurants.

[@johnvanegmond1812]

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.

[@Sporkonafork1]

Yeah I saw that part and was like what does this guy have against rabbit meat lol

[@manasseskamau5327]

Can’t imagine they are wasting such healthy and delicious meat.

[@punker4Real]

we should ship the rabbits to starving countries they would love to eat them

[@AlexOjideagu2]

I thought that too Rabbit was a staple in the UK before chicken mass production

[@samjennings6791]

Rabbit is absolutely delicious

[@linda1258]

Australia: we have the most poisonous animal of every species, sharks and crocodiles Rabbit: takes over

[@sivartb7273]

They just can't win.

[@1legend517]

What does that tell you about how deadly our country is if rabbits can thrive here. Lol

[@WeltSchmerz1349]

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

[@MrTiger243]

Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Australian need to remember that Bugs bunny won in every episode against impossible odds.

[@jammm3660]

Sorry,For adding a 1 like to your 69 likes

[@soulshadoww55]

LOL!!!

[@penginator88]

i mean you are not wrong

[@jamied8678]

Yes well we all know the yanks like to think that they're invincible despite overwhelming evidence the that is not the case lol

[@johngamerschlag7001]

I’m still lamenting the catastrophic loss of wildlife in the fires of Australia. Still makes me sad.😢

[@PacoQuerak]

then plant something besides eucalypts

[@Tea.is.fantastic.2019]

Australia belongs to its native animals who live there for centuries it doesn't belong to criminals who come and grab their land

[@AY-vi2ld]

They bounce back and thrive quickly Australia is made for fire

[@rotorheadv8]

Australia has always had fires. It always recovers.

[@johnnunn8688]

@@PacoQuerak, exactly.

[@antonfig1865]

I don't understand why these are not being hunted for meat, in mass.

[@johne7123]

I suppose you didn't easily go hungry when the rabbits were in full force. Wonder if people can eat the virus ones

[@johnnunn8688]

It’s a hot country, consider the logistics.

[@muhammadasruni8992]

So true 👍

[@someaafrika.3379]

Exactly

[@veran6219]

Exactly - that turns it into a fortune - even if they eat the crops

[@ninny65]

"Yo wanna take a few rabbits with us to australia to shoot?" "Sure, what could go wrong"

[@scootergrant8683]

Well they didn't know back then. But they sure did a few decades after.

[@Smurf5738]

Same logic put snakeheads in florida

[@brq267]

"Yeah, it's not like the few surviving individuals will multiply into a population of around 100 million and devastate the local ecosystem, right?"

[@nelzelpher7158]

Bring only male rabbits or make sure to kill them all!

[@ike212111]

"Is it all you got, humans? We are rabbits, we stand tall and proud!"

[@Rawflcounsel76]

you mean "we hop high and fast"!

[@gutsdw]

More like screeching and running away

[@nabayanchakma2419]

Annihilate humans and cultivate carrots

[@Zhang158]

Get lost Peta guy

[@sannidhyabalkote9536]

@@Zhang158 bhai Joke sar ke upar se gaya tere

[@michaelhancock1954]

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.

[@motortraction]

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.

[@elohimdagod]

The European way lol

[@yoboikamil525]

"how do you cull invasive species" "car"

[@--Nath--]

We do the same here, but more dirt roads due to the scale.

[@eyeoftruth4405]

Ya U.K were you allow invasive cats to roam free, legally

[@dangerbeans9639]

Australia’s inadvertently breeding super bunnies.

[@feather563]

@Tony .w lmao xd

[@marshmallowbudgie]

bunnies: "so they took us to this distant shore--and then they decided half a century later to whack us--"

[@allenjenkins7947]

They were brought out to be whacked in the first place. Same with foxes, which were introduced so that "gentlemen" could ride to hounds.

[@jonathantan2469]

"Briiiight Eyyyesss... burning like fire..."

[@jacobcarolan1172]

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.

[@ctj111]

This has to be one of the few instances where a plague can be traced back to the guy who introduced the source.

[@cwillie1492]

Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. All I can picture is Bugs and Daffy 😂

[@joelalvares8351]

🤣🤣 .... makes complete sense now..... "What's up Doc..." The Doc dude is an Auzzie virologist fella.... 😂😂

[@bdb34mc84]

Love it!! I miss Loony Tunes on Sat mornings

[@girishmahajan3646]

Emus and kangaroos chilling in background

[@vmutuma]

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.

[@Diddley_Squat]

Don't forget pigs, and a lot of different plants.

[@publicdomain3378]

Them hogs will be good for the coming years

[@ayunkhan2395]

The pythons were introduced through a hurricane, not the owners themselves. Just a few hurricane survivor pythons ventured into the wilds and became invasive

[@wesleydaub8002]

Send the Pythons to Australia, bunny problem over.

[@ayunkhan2395]

@@wesleydaub8002 then youll have a python problem, mate

[@taxevader866]

Snakes, spiders, sharks, jellyfish, rats and now rabbits, Australia is making so many enemies in animal kingdom.

[@proudlywild1491]

That is not the same 💀 jellyfish, spiders, snakes are all native to Australia for millions of years

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Er what? This is about invasive species. Sharks, snakes, spiders and jellyfish are native.

[@deepaknairneo]

This is what when you mess with "MOTHER NATURE"

[@nilnil8411]

If it were in US, there would be a great American Rabbit hunting season.

[@jonnygonehawking380]

there is a virus in the US that is killing jackrabbits and cottontails it is in all the western 6-1-21

[@jonnygonehawking380]

Its called RHDV2

[@jthepickle7]

Been there, done that with the bison.

[@oscarguijosa7881]

We have wild hogs in Texas and still can't control them despite people killing thousands of them.

[@abubakaranwar6859]

@@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

[@michaelmorgan5303]

Such a waste to poison them. They could feed a lot of hungry people and they do taste good.

[@newatthis50]

Almost impossible to hunt or trap them down to non destructive levels

[@vladimirlagos2688]

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.

[@benlewis7686]

@@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.....

[@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM]

Canning the meat and sending it to Africa ...they did in the war Times so they could și IT now

[@drmodestoesq]

@@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.

[@jessewhite904]

Can we take a second to appreciate the rabbit emoji used in the title?

[@allencolvin4320]

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!

[@zyrilesteban5817]

Smart

[@singaboiz]

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.

[@deanpd3402]

...and yet we still manage to produce food for not only this nation but for export markets as well.

[@josephastier7421]

"camel"?

[@joevarga5982]

Sounds like a living Hell. And now Covid vaccine mandate madness.

[@cemasti4524]

How r Camels?

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

@@josephastier7421 yeah we have the biggest camel population in the world

[@scottydouglass1892]

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.

[@iamthejabberwock2872]

Good man your father.

[@johnwilliamknox7156]

Robber

[@MussaKZN]

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!🤣

[@dun0790]

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?

[@kkwun4969]

@@dun0790 i dont know where youre from but i think rabbits are plenty small 🤣

[@_enigma_.]

Australia and their wars are so hilarious😂😂😂

[@leswheeler2023]

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

[@dinkdankdoo3035]

Cats are the problem. Always are.

[@scootergrant8683]

Don't forget wallabies.

[@Paul-qs3nu]

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

[@mohammadnoormauludadnan1847]

Just send the vietnamese to hunt it for free...

[@m1ytcaws]

When apex predator extinct by humans these thing happens with humans

[@memesjenkins2104]

Not anymore, mice have CLEARLY taken the crown.

[@lukemarchionne]

Ikr 😒 and the vegans say relocating them how about we relocate them in there house 🥰🥰

[@ulwimi_oluninzi]

@@lukemarchionne Ye

[@deanpd3402]

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.

[@Ajitkl666]

Yup

[@thomasgeorge4559]

They sure seem to have found my house this year. I'm catching as many as 3 a night.

[@danelobe2524]

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.

[@rochellelisa7959]

And why shouldnt they? The rabbits were brought in to provide food and pelts. Weren't they?

[@danelobe2524]

@@rochellelisa7959 yeah buy they over populated and destroyed sertain plant and eco sysyems. They were like roaches.....

[@SF-ku2hp]

@@rochellelisa7959 if you watched the video 24 were brought over for hunting on Christmas Day Lisa

[@rochellelisa7959]

@@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?

[@SF-ku2hp]

@@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?

[@Agrofind6161]

The video contains a lot of useful information, thank you for the video and wish you lots of health and success!

[@ktkt9982]

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.

[@punker4Real]

China would take them

[@ShayneMicchia]

love braised rabbit nanna style!

[@trevorlewis847]

Rabbit friccasee yum

[@sarcasmo57]

Tell the rabbits it's time for lock-down and social distancing.

[@suemills4434]

Think they evolve so fast they figured it out. K5 not spreading...

[@personalfunfest]

that only works on 🐑🐑🐑

[@Sk-ym1uv]

Rabbit: “we are stronger than humans. We don’t die from COVID-19.”

[@ShannonSouthAfrica]

They dont understand English

[@adriankingston4338]

No because then i will have to throw a boom stick down their burrows 😐

[@kawa99]

They’re unintentionally making super rabbits that are immune to every single virus

[@gaestroorly4668]

Or maybe the rabbit is good at social distancing so that the viruses can't spread 😂

[@saiko9472]

Hope it can survive covid-19. We should eat the rabbit.

[@TheHmoobkey]

They most likely are gonna make super soldier rabbits lol

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

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.

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

This is how, strong individuals remain to reproduce. Weak genetics are excluded from propagation.

[@mikegord]

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.

[@crysis4real]

'Breeding like rabbits' ahh now I know where that terminology comes from !

[@nilesh7217]

Yeah like playboy magazine

[@user-sz6kw5tc4x]

When my Chinese and Nigerian brothers see this, by shaking their head they will say " oh this is a big waste"

[@javiercantu9271]

Well the chinese eat anything that lives and maybe the Nigerians should learn to grow some food in the 21st century

[@akunajoshua]

@@javiercantu9271. And Europeans should learn not to kill any moving thing.

[@javiercantu9271]

@@akunajoshua they cant chinese ate them all

[@galihpambudi1494]

As Indonesian when saw this videos, yes this is waste... Waste everything....

[@akunajoshua]

@@javiercantu9271. I mean humans. Thought I was speaking about rabbits, that's way below your standards

[@travisnorseman8648]

The whole biowarfare approach seems unnecessarily risky to me.

[@mathewhawkins5401]

I reckon next pandemic in the making

[@josipmickovic2572]

Exactly

[@celticwisdom.7430]

Deplorable and half of the world are starving.

[@tegan71969]

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.

[@wannabecarguy]

@Old Soul ..or we could teach our children one mate for life...

[@spasjt]

Fascinating series. I may watch more.

[@susansparanormalpennsylvan81]

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

[@Aethuviel]

Khaleesivirus was also quite devastating to the city of King's Landing.

[@siddheshrane]

😂😂Underrated

[@nunyabiznes33]

It reduced a man into "She's much kween", "We need allies", and "I don't know what else to say".

[@nolashingout4940]

Wow

[@festyguy7405]

I was thinking about that!!

[@Don-is2rl]

😆😆 nice...

[@seangaw6429]

Rabbits are the horniest animal alive. I love rabbit they look so innocent.

[@stephenbrewster3878]

But do you love them when you are a farmer and rabbits eat all your crops and then you go broke

[@seangaw6429]

@@stephenbrewster3878 you should support world hunger with these rabbits great for the world and great for economy. Why do you resort to chemical attacks.

[@justarandomyoutubeviewer2749]

@@seangaw6429 rabbit,, rabbies. Nah

[@jayanepal1880]

lol im dead

[@maxxxdrone7354]

@@stephenbrewster3878 farmers stop conquering rabbit land so they can leave in peace

[@debbiehenri345]

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.

[@ghostrider6267]

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.

[@burleybater]

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.

[@RayMak]

They are extremely delicious. Don't use poison omg...

[@antechinus100]

Well, start eating them and don't stop. Do something useful for a change.

[@nameunavailable315]

@Benjamin Patterson that’s is the truest thing I’ve heard all day

[@huh904]

I'm hungry now

[@Pochonesian]

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.

[@nameunavailable315]

@@Pochonesian I work on a farm but here in Oklahoma there really not a problem

[@stevenrusch6341]

Imagine if these rabbits suddenly became as carnivorous as prehistoric marsupials back in the Pleistocene.

[@aquarius5719]

They would eat mice...

[@kennethsmith8844]

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

[@jaycristoval6155]

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.

[@kasilofsteve]

When they blew up that rabbit-hole reminds me of Bill Murray in the movie Caddyshack classic

[@888rustey]

thats a dangerous game they are playing

[@nickhowatson4745]

mate these people are experts.

[@jarretdietzler7750]

Only dangerous for the rabbits

[@zeeshantamanna604]

@@nickhowatson4745 yes,mate these experts are not able to make effective vaccine of covid-19 till now....

[@SY27196]

So true Experimenting

[@chadlemon2335]

I agree

[@sharoncombs58]

Wow! Couldn't help thinking of Richard Adam's WATERSHIP DOWN!

[@OleJoe]

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "multiply like rabbits."

[@OldBlue560]

As we’re coming up on a depression, folks are going to need these rabbits

[@stuntmangMUSIC]

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😂

[@shhheee]

@@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.

[@erismorreti549]

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 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@mrzoukdotcomzouklambadaboo8212]

They should breed them with a bigger breed instead of poisoning them... A bigger slower rabbit could be easily eradicated... As a food source...

[@stk6755]

And send them to people who do not have it food 😲😟😞

[@dsaasd6162]

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?

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

Australia is a pussy

[@bransonjallim2620]

dsa asd sama

[@mgmjferg89]

I clicked on the same video

[@edswope28]

@@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.

[@fjeldfross9327]

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.

[@larryparis925]

Wow...! This is impressive journalism.

[@gb9884]

Oh yeah thanks for bringing them over to NZ too Oz

[@jimthomas777]

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

[@redactedgamersgd1788]

and some fire

[@jimthomas777]

@@redactedgamersgd1788 , I have my own fire , I graduated from firebug to arsonist

[@thomasbroking7943]

Rabbit is delicious. Don't poison them hunt & BBQ them, share with friends.

[@velvetindigonight]

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.

[@elmackoful]

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

[@kevinreyimperial9112]

Idiot

[@Wasserkaktus]

There are way more than you could ever eat.

[@terenceding1210]

max bäckman lol Australians has no idea of how cooking rabbit. Check rabbit cuisine in China, many people love it. Demand is over supply.

[@krystal-animations]

Not only did Australia lose a war against emus, they're losing a war against RABBITS

[@dexterjsullen]

Its how the most dangerous animals are in Australia but their biggest problem is rabbits

[@justdoingitjim7095]

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!

[@uow513]

Have you thought about writing professionally? You are a natural story teller.

[@justdoingitjim7095]

@@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!

[@Dukov82]

I agree great story telling !! Please take the time to write a novel :-)

[@clivedavies7984]

Stupid govenrment taking guns away from hunters. The way the Rabbits suffer with injecting diseases is cruel.

[@sticustom]

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.

[@trappermario40]

I use a 5 shot bolt action and I do pretty good, I don't need semi auto or auto, that's for sure.

[@allenjenkins7947]

@@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.

[@Wasserkaktus]

Rabbits breed much faster than hunters can kill them in Australia.

[@blindfredy6128]

@@scott_itall8638 No animal cruelty here. Move on nothing to see here.

[@dougpine4746]

This reminds me of a childrens story I remember from my childhood. "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly".

[@michael123cody5]

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.

[@MysteriousGecko82]

“As soon as there’s one there’s many” Has any one told her it takes two rabbits to make a baby

[@parshuram7431]

That was exactly what I thought while watching the video😂😂😂.

[@fredandrew5441]

Reminds me of how wolves being reintroduced improved the ecosystem of yellowstone national park.

[@penginator88]

do you think what im thinkiing :)

[@daviddeck8509]

Nice one Thomas Austin

[@butchbinion1560]

Thanks. ✌🏻👊

[@RaptorSquadronRhein]

Australia: pests! *waging biological warfare against rabbits* Indonesia: say what mate? *munching on rabbit satay*

[@binkysteaver9880]

“We’ve infected them with deadly viruses” 😳 like something right out of Chyna’s playbook

[@punker4Real]

GMO VlRUSES

[@ChineseKiwi]

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.

[@carolinejayes157]

Teams of ferrets,with jack russels ,and their handlers.!

[@davidmullin9045]

Antelope valley California had a bounty on the coyote population that cause a jackrabbit problem in the 1940's. The locals set up fencing to corral them and made a great slaughter of them. Alfalfa was the major crop at the time.

[@shadowstalker6762]

24 years after your going back that is journalism right there

[@ktkt9982]

Wonderful isn't it. I am so proud of our ABC.

[@jls1811]

If they lift the red tape for hunting this would not be a problem like in Victoria you can only hunt pests during daylight hours .And i don't see a lot of rabbits in the middle of the day .And in NSW you need to get a R licence and book in a time to go hunting get rid of the red tape and watch them disappear

[@velvetindigonight]

Rediculous shows you how tied up Australia is by the 0.001% who wish to profit from everything...........

[@allenjenkins7947]

Sorry, but this is not quite correct. In Victoria, you can hunt pests at any time. It's game animals that can only be hunted in daylight. Even then, because of the success of the management program, you can now hunt deer on private property at night*. All State Forests, most unoccupied Crown land, some State parks and even National parks are open to various forms of hunting. Private property is always open to pest hunting and game in season, with owner's permission. NSW has their ridiculous "R-licence" system and Qld has banned all hunting on state land. As far as I know, SA and Tas are similar to Vic and WA is similar to Qld. *Source, gma.vic.gov.au

[@lalruatdikavarte7943]

Nice video and very informative and very entertaining and very satisfaction more videos. Give them Iodine just trying to help. I like pest control.

[@markarca6360]

These cute Easter figures was really a pest in Australia, together with feral cats!

[@michaelmcleod3012]

That’s what happens when the predators have been eliminated

[@riddlemethat4911]

Michael McLeod rabbits have very few natural predators in numbers too small to combat their quick-to-breed nature.

[@harry80124hill]

Please enlighten us as to what predators have been eliminated from Australia

[@grancito2]

They were introduced, where there were not enough predators.

[@Aethuviel]

There are no natural predators of rabbits in /Australia/.

[@mr.mystery9338]

@@harry80124hill the tiger dog

[@chapiit08]

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.

[@PencilProper]

There already is an all year round rabbit hunting season on Rabbits under spotlight. No bag limits

[@markshort9098]

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

[@treyruland1553]

Yeah, and then RHD somehow got over here to the US and did a number on our native rabbits and had domestic rabbit breeders on edge. For a time, I had to take special measures to go visit my family because RHD was found in my county of west Texas and my mom raised rabbits. Luckily, it seems to have burned itself out.

[@tubefry]

Thanks for sharing your insight on this. Here in Germany it's been the same disaster. But since two years it seems to have gone. It looks like there where a few diseases leaping from Australia to Europe and the World. I know that breeders in Germany still have their rabbits vaccinated every year. But the average rural rabbit owner stopped that practice or never started it. Those vaccines doses cost around 3 to 5 € these days. Many don't care about the disease when looking at the money.

[@robleary3353]

A Jack Russel and a .22. Kept the population down on my parents property and had many good feeds!.

[@mr.paradise454]

Eat them! Greetings from Italy!!!

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

Wish there were more rabbits about...none here in central west...i miss my feed😥😥

[@brianisme6498]

Paul G the destructive to Australia’s ecosystem. If you want one get one as a pet

[@queenaerithgrace1384]

I wonder if the Easter bunny from 'Rise of the Guardians' is one of the reasons why they're Aussie (aside from everyone mainly loving Easter for the wonderful easter egg hunt and sweets).. ('v') so much joy and pain..

[@casienwhey]

The long term solution (and by long term I mean 100 from now) is miniature robotics. When we have advanced the technology far enough along, there will be tiny robotic machines which we can introduce into an area and they will have the means to identify and mark a target species, such as rabbits in this case. Once they do, a GPS type signal will be emitted marking the animal. Then it's location will be known and either another robotic machine will be sent to destroy or it, or humans will. That will be a means to both ID and eliminate an invasive species in a given area.

[@junglie]

oh yeah what could possibly go wrong.......lol

[@garyvee6023]

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.

[@Camboge]

That fur and meat is worth something somewhere

[@samjennings6791]

Those were the days were Australia wasn't PC and I would have loved to live in that time

[@dubistverrueckt]

@@samjennings6791 And killing them horribly with viruses is PC? what did I miss??

[@kamrankhan-ud5vd]

Australia apparently needs you and your skill set

[@Springfield1795]

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

[@danielblue4460]

These are clean animals, and very organic too. Find a market for them, Singapore, Hongkong, and China.

[@alexanderludvigsen1893]

Yeah, tell the Chinese that Australian rabbits have healing properties

[@williamlau7179]

U have poisoned and "virused" them; now becoming contagious, poisonous, non marketable/consumable. Not even be fertilizers. Self induced unsolvable problem. Too bad!

[@Jimmy-ng4wy]

@@williamlau7179 actually some rural land in Australia has clean rabbits we hunt and eat em but they are ours😆😂

[@mycuterabbits7754]

Nooo, Singapore DONT eat rabbits, I don’t see any

[@manhphan1377]

Bring them to vietnam and these rabbit would be exctinct i swear

[@nigeljohnson8995]

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?

[@charlesandrecuadra8569]

It safe to say that Bugs Bunny is not a favorite Loony Toon in Australia.

[@dropitlikeitshot815]

I heard feral cats and cane toads are also major invasive species in Australia.

[@WiseOldRafikiYT]

they are feral cats have smashed the lizard and bird population and the cane toads nigh on wiped out the Murray cod

[@WhistlesToAnimals]

At least in Australia they aren't welcoming to feral cats. In America, they want them to live as long as possible. Happy to sacrifice every living creature to them.

[@someonesomething4455]

@@WhistlesToAnimals Still crying about feral cats I see? I hope you witness a dog eating your precious animals. Maybe that'll change your mind that cats aren't the only thing to worry about. Maybe one day we'll find a way to turn your tears and obsession with feral cats into food and water for animals at animal shelters.

[@cn8299]

Emus, cane toads, feral cats and rabbits....Australia just can't catch a break..

[@28russ]

At least the emus were already bloody here 🤷‍♂🤣🤣

[@nicksonshango2082]

The farmers decimated natural predators like foxes and wolves to protect sheep The end result was a bunny boom .call it a biological accident

[@hughfitzgibbon7661]

There are no native foxes in Australia, maybe a few dingoes, but that’s about it mate, clearly you have no understanding of the Australian eco system

[@nicksonshango2082]

@@hughfitzgibbon7661 You seem to have an understanding of the Australian fauna and flora issues? If that is the case I welcome your contribution on this current subject matter. I equally was doing the same. But the fact remains the bunny 🐰 population outmatched that of the predators hence the explosion of their numbers What do you think can be attributed to this phenomenon?

[@hughfitzgibbon7661]

@@nicksonshango2082 So your idea of killing off an introduced species is to introduce another non-native species to wipe them out. Haven't you heard of the cane-toad issue? Truth is there is no viable solution, the Aussi eco-system has suffered enough, best thing we can do is quell the issue with rodenticide and hope for the best. Would like to hear what you would suggest though other than foxes n stuff.

[@skinnykid7888]

You do realise there are no natural predators for rabbits in Australia

[@renegadeace1735]

First the emu war, now it's time for the rabbit war.

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

WOW! I lived in China for a while. There was a Sichuan restaurant near my condo that a had a great rabbit dish. I had never eaten rabbits in the US but after accidentally ordering rabbit because I can't read Chinese, it became my favourite dish. Sadly, there was some problem in the supply line and they quit serving rabbit.

[@AsimKhan-mo2ny]

Rabbit meat can be a substitute for other meats plus a good export Worth a look into Only difficulty catching them but I'm sure there's plenty of experts to do that.

[@markmccullough5873]

Rabbits could boiled whole to cook and remove the hair. Then be ground whole and used as the primary ingredient in pet food.

[@dontask8979]

Exactly. Feed the poor.

[@tobyhorn9641]

@@markmccullough5873 why feeding it to your dogs and cats is a waste besides the old timers here in the us had a sickness in dogs called the running blues witch was a made dogs go mad like hydrophobia would

[@edwardd9702]

Ancient armies and explorers that tried to live solely on rabbit meat died from protein poisoning. The meat is too lean.

[@sadkarslan7116]

I see a scene including of Hamartia, tragic flaw and soon poetic just😁

[@cornerslice]

It's a perfect opportunity to feed the world.

[@jacobgoldenofficial4321]

Imagine the rabbits creating a virus that killed humans. Oh wait!

[@sticknbox6157]

imagine being damn near on the lowest part of the food chain lul gotta suck

[@cockruukovo3237]

🐇💭💥💨💨NOT UNTILL THEY..START HUNTING n EATING HUMANz FIRST💨😷🍼

[@sukeshvs2218]

@@cockruukovo3237 give it to me also

[@petevann8764]

He's a idea bring back public land. Open public land up for hunting as they do in America and New Zealand and let the hunters clean up the Ferral animal from our country. Not every solution is a virus etc. You scientists have don't enough bloody damage with the introduction of the Cane toad amoungst others. Let the hunters hunt and do what we do best

[@rh1507]

Sad. Think how devastated Bug's Bunny and Rodger Rabbit would be if he saw this.

[@andrejs2708]

They are so cute. 😲