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Australia: The War on Rabbits
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How did twenty-four rabbits released by one man for a "spot of hunting" in 1859 colonise an entire continent within thirty-five years — and why did a three-thousand-kilometre fence, a campaign of poisoning, and even the deliberate introduction of foxes all fail to stop them? Who was Dame Jean Macnamara, the doctor who had already helped defeat polio and then spent twenty years fighting institutional resistance to unleash a virus on 600 million rabbits? And what happened when that virus escaped from its island quarantine before it was officially approved?
Join John and Patrick as they tell the story of Australia's great rabbit catastrophe — the Victorian acclimatisation societies, the biological arms race, and the invasion that still isn't over...
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