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Digging up rabbit holes

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Digging up rabbit holes

One of the earliest methods of rabbit control was simply to dig up burrows and kill the young rabbits – but this had little impact when their numbers were increasing at an enormous rate.

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Robert Peden, Rabbits – Controlling rabbits with poison, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15254/digging-up-rabbit-holes (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.