The saying goes: “Never turn your back on a rabbit, especially in Central Otago”. This week, Newsroom Investigates launches an in-depth series about the South Island rabbit rampage. Rabbits are eating their way through parts of the South Island, turning productive farm land into bare, honeycombed ground where only weeds survive. A single female rabbit can produce 50 offspring in a year and females can breed at five months of age. The Otago Regional Council concedes there are “hot spots”, but says rabbits are not at plague proportions yet.

Source: Stuff May 03, 2021 00:00 UTC