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Threat Abatement Plan for Competition and Land Degradation by Feral Rabbits

Biodiversity Group Environment Australia, 1999
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Note: This publication has been superseded by Threat Abatement Plan for competition and land degradation by rabbits, 2008

FOREWORD

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND ABREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE KEY THREATENING PROCESS

MECHANICAL CONTROL
- Fencing
- Harbour destruction
- Shooting
- Trapping
CHEMICAL CONTROL
- Fumigants
- Poisoning
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
- Myxomatosis
- Rabbit calicivirus disease
- Immunocontraception
INTEGRATED CONTROL

FACTORS AFFECTING RABBIT CONTROL

COMMERCIAL INTERESTS
NON-TARGET IMPACTS
- Interaction with other herbivores
- Foxes and cats
ANIMAL WELFARE
CULTURAL ISSUES
TAX INCENTIVES

DEVELOPING A NATIONAL APPROACH TO RABBIT MANAGEMENT

PLANNING FOR NATIONALLY COORDINATED ACTION
STRATEGIES
RANKING AREAS FOR PRIORITY ACTION

THREAT ABATEMENT OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS

RABBIT MANAGEMENT
- Local control plans
- Regional control plans
- Rabbit free areas
INNOVATIVE AND HUMANE CONTROL METHODS
- Fumigation
- Fencing
- Fertility control
INFORMATION
- Documenting rabbit impacts
- Understanding interactions with other feral pests
- Refining priority setting mechanisms
EDUCATION
- Education and extension
ADMINISTRATION
- National coordination

EVALUATION AND REVIEW

REFERENCES

Appendix 2 Relevant objectives of the draft paper Conservation of Australian Species and Ecological Communities Threatened with Extinction. The National Strategy.

Implementation of objectives and actions set out in terms of the requirements in subsection 34 (2) of the Endangered Species Protection Act 1992.

Please Note: Under the EPBC Act new categories have been added for listed threatened species and ecological communities. Critically endangered, conservation dependant and extinct in the wild have been added to the previous categories of endangered, vulnerable and extinct for threatened species and critically endangered and vulnerable have been added to the previous category of endangered for ecological communities. Threatened Animal Species, Threatened Plant Species

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