What is the negative effect of feral rabbits in the Great Vic Desert?
They eat everything in sight (will eat standing vegetation down to the ground), displacing major swaths of the local ecology, and bunnies breed like crazy (think of almost exponential growth). Think of furry, cute four footed hopping locust! “The main sources of widespread disturbances come from feral animals, especially rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) which adversely affect native vegetation.” (From World Wildlife Fund Web pages – Great Victoria desert (AA1305) Real bad news. This is why it is a bad idea to introducing non-native species into new ecologies. But rabbit is good eating… Also, check out South American Nutria introduced into Southeast Louisiana coastal wetlands as the result of a Hurricane. As a note of possible future problems, I pray that the Tilapia, which were being grown as aquaculture to feed the New Orleans Parish Prison population (in city block long cement tanks behind the prison in the middle of New Orleans) did die when the aeration failed in the 1 to 2 days b
