Professional shooters killing more than 1,000 rabbits a night in rain-soaked NSW 🐇🎯🐰 | ABC Australia

Good rainfall in recent years has led to an explosion of rabbit numbers on NSW farms, forcing some farmers to employ professional shooters to cull the population.
Professional shooters are killing more than 1,000 feral rabbits each night as numbers of the pest dramatically increase after good rain.
Numbers have been increasing after three years of regular rainfall, with more than 28 tonnes of carrots used to lure then poison rabbits on Riverina farms this year.
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What about the contribution of recreational hunters?

[@shooterdownunder]

Goes against the narrative

[@kozlo513]

Rabbits used to be on a Australian family protein stable back in the old days.

[@PeterMcInnes-ti8ou]

Rabbits breed in town areas make councils responsible to also remove Rabbits from towns.

[@deanmorriss2369]

A Thousand a Night I don’t think so!

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Meanwhile itis 3 years of prison for shooting a rat in Poland.

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