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April 14th 2006 at 2:07 pm in I just accidentally hit this BBC article here telling of a 20p bounty for every rabbit killed on Shetland.
They aren’t responsible for that situation.
Mr Ratter, who is also a Shetland Islands councillor, added: “The damage they can cause is huge, especially in an area like the south end of the island which is sandy. Rabbits can destroy huge areas of grazing.”
A bounty has previously been operated on the island by the local authority.
Shetland Islands Council paid 25p per tail in 1990, and a total of 11,183 rabbits were killed.
The only reason that rabbit-populations increase is because their natural enemies, over tens to hundreds of years, have reduced in numbers, because of the humans that want to inhabit that environment.
A fine other example of humans messing around was when they brought the first rabbits to Australia — where they have absolutely no natural enemies and could thrive. Like AIDS, they also invented diseases to kill them off in a weak attempt to control the population.
And now, because of that, again, nature has to pay the price… I’m not a tree-hugging fanatic, but this type of ‘population-control’ is surely not good.
It just shouldn’t have ever reached to this point.
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