Story: Rabbits

More links and websites

• European Rabbit

  The Ministry of Primary Industries has information about rabbits in New Zealand and their status as pests.

• Rabbit Management Information

  This Landcare Research site provides articles and references to wild rabbit populations in NZ, Australia, and the UK.

• The Current State of Rabbit Management in New Zealand

  This report from 2009 examines the role of rabbits in NZ, their effects, and recommendations for their control.

More suggestions and sources

• Bamford, John, and others. Environmental impact report on a proposal to introduce myxomatosis as another means of rabbit control in New Zealand. Nelson: John Bamford Associates, 1985.
• McLean, W. H. Rabbits galore – on the other side of the fence. Wellington: A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1996.
• Norbury, G. ‘Advances in New Zealand mammalogy, 1990–2000: Lagomorphs.’ Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 31, no. 1 (March 2001): 83–97.
• Thompson, Harry V., and Carolyn M. King, eds. The European rabbit: the history and biology of a successful colonizer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Wodzicki, K. A. ‘Introduced mammals of New Zealand.’ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 98 (1950): 107–141.