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John Kidman

Rabbit plague looms amid calls for new biocontrols

Australia's population of feral rabbits is estimated at 200 million and numbers are on the rise. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Although a far cry from the estimated 10 billion rabbits that infested Australia a century ago, some 200 million currently inhabit the continent and their numbers are again threatening to explode.

It's been almost a decade since the CSIRO's last rabbit biocontrol virus release and environmental groups say it's time to fund a new one, an initiative that would require at least $15 million across five years.

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