Pest animals cost Australia millions of dollars every year. Feral rabbits are one of the most destructive species of the group, with a damage bill from biodiversity loss, cost to agriculture and reduction in crops topping $239 million annually.
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is now calling on rural and regional Australians to join a long-running survey which assists in keeping the invasive pest in check. Their nine-year program is the longest-running citizen science survey of rabbit diseases in the world…