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Research Objectives In Vertebrate Pest Control, A J. Oliver
Research Objectives In Vertebrate Pest Control, A J. Oliver
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The European rabbit, introduced into Australia in 856 by an early settler for hunting, caused massive losses to agricultural production in Western Australia in 1940s and 1950s.
In those years most of the country's recources and efforts allocated to vertebrate pest problems were aimed at controlling this animal.
Research and control measures by Commonwealth and State agencies, including the introduction of myxomatosis, were largely responsible for reducing the rabbit problem to the comparatively minor one it is now.
Today, the Agricultural Protection Board is involved in the control of a much wider range of mammals and birds which cause losses …