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Time Warp: Rabbit plague decimation

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The rabbit plagues of Australia have produced many stories of properties and land being decimated under a wave of rabbits, eating everything they could reach: grasses, small trees, shrubs and causing the death of taller trees by ringbarking as far as they could stretch.

The 24 rabbits imported to Australia in the 1800s for game shooting quickly bred to plague proportions. In 1901 there was one su...


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