What animals can one hunt in Australia?
Rabbit, The European rabbit was taken as a pet in 1788 to Australia. In 1859, twenty four of them were released into the wild causing pandemonium and major problems that are current today. Because Australia had no natural predators, the European rabbit spread rapidly across the southern portion of the country causing 1/8 of the country’s mammals to become extinct. By 1869 over two million were said to be shot and killed, but it did not put a dent in the rabbit population. Several methods were used over the years to try to control the population. From 1902 to 1908 three ‘rabbit proof fences’ were put up, the first running 1,139 miles north to south becoming the longest fence in the world, the second running 724 miles from the middle of fence number one to the south, and the third running east to west. All three fences failed because of the erosion
