Back paddock have found the answer to 1080!
I have mentioned previously that I have been working on the 1080 project interviewing farmers for Rural Development Services in Hobart.
I was having a quick flick through the Back Paddock pages in Weekly Times a moment ago and the photo above caught my eye.
Back Paddock reckons that all we need to do now is train a few more of these bounty hunters to control the raging rabbit populations.
They say “it’s so simple it’s a wonder no one thought of it before.”
The fox is a natural enemy for the rabbit, but there are only so many bunnies that a fox can eat in a day, right?
So, Back Paddock are saying forget 1080, strychnine and calicivirus. All you have to do is give these trained foxes a .222 with a scope and they can quadruple their kill for the day.
Who would have thought that managing the rabbit was as simple as giving foxes a gun licence!