Rabbits are out of control in the Queenstown countryside – and Otago Regional Council’s in the gun for it. Hunter’s aware ORC believes rabbit control’s a landowner’s responsibility. Max Guthrie agrees: “Everybody’s got to do it all at once because rabbits don’t understand boundaries.”He says ORC’s been “a dismal failure”. He notes it introduced a virus, RHDV K5, a year ago, “but in our area it’s had absolutely no effect”. Cromwell-based ORC councillor Michael Laws says he’s had “enormous frustration” with his organisation’s rabbit control policy.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 05, 2019 02:26 UTC