On Monday, before traveling road Yeloak will visit Churchill Island to find out more on account of the environmental disaster that marked the arrival of rabbits to Australia.
Thomas Austin, a farmer in Victoria very ready, missed his days of hunting in England, so in 1859, imported and released two dozen rabbits, only a handful of animals, according to Bill Bryson. However, in a few years had multiplied to amazing extremes. The plague moved at 100 miles per year. Were of no shooting, traps or poisons. They even failed to stem the tide with the famous barrier extends along nearly 2,000 miles across Western Australia.
In 1950, when the Australian population of rabbits touched the 600 million people, was launched first biological warfare against the lagomorph. The myxomatosis virus caused 500 million lower in two years, but the rabbits from Down Under soon to become resistant to disease and grow back to 300 milion copies in 1990.
Today he is fighting with all weapons, but it seems that the war against the invader to win easily.
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