Dunstan Hospital is ramping up its rabbit control measures beginning this week. Rabbits have had the Clyde hospital on the hop recently as rabbit holes and rabbit droppings had been found on hospital grounds. Earlier this week, the Southern District Health Board announced on its Facebook page a fortnightly poison-baiting programme would be implemented on hospital grounds, beginning tomorrow. The Otago Regional Council's rabbit management policy sets out responsibility of rabbit control on landowners. Last month, former Otago regional councillor Gerry Eckhoff said the rabbit problem at Dunstan Hospital exemplified a failure of the regional council's pest control policies.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 13, 2019 15:35 UTC