Who tamed UVics rabbit population?
They are fluffy and cute and spend most of their time nibbling veggies, digging holes and reproducing. And it’s precisely these activities that have created a distressing situation for the University of Victoria, overrun with feral rabbits. The university is starting a pilot project to trap, sterilize and adopt at least 150 rabbits from an area that includes its athletic fields and is asking for proposals to do it in a humane way. We need to reduce the population, said Richard Piskor, the university’s health, safety and environment director. The university isn’t sure where the rabbits came from, but it’s believed they’re descended from abandoned pets. Over the years, the population has exploded. Last fall, the university launched a campaign to educate people not to feed, harass or abandon rabbits on the campus. It put up posters and signs, inserted bookmarks in textbooks and placed ads in newspapers, but the problem continued. The university’s chief concern is damage to the playing fie
