Thread: Rabbit City

1080 does a real job on the wallaby. Reduces them to pretty much zero. Trouble is they don't do big enough adjoining areas at the same time so they soon re-populate. And they only seem to do the the outer edges to stop their spread so killing a few thousand with 1080 just makes room for another few thousand to move in.

Same with shooting. If neighbours aren't cooperating those who are shooting are just making room for a new influx.

Originally Posted by Tahr

1080 does a real job on the wallaby. Reduces them to pretty much zero. Trouble is they don't do big enough adjoining areas at the same time so they soon re-populate. And they only seem to do the the outer edges to stop their spread so killing a few thousand with 1080 just makes room for another few thousand to move in.

Same with shooting. If neighbours aren't cooperating those who are shooting are just making room for a new influx.

Comes down to dollars. Neighbours are happy to co-operate (generally) but effective poisoning needs to be to large scale and to geographic boundaries, or population boundaries. Rabbits or Wallaby's dont live inside fences so there-in lies the problem. Thats the very problem with a user-pays system that now operates. Some cockeys will willingly pay their share, others begrudgingly pay, some aren't interested.
Can't see it changing any time soon