When European rabbits arrived in Australia in the 19th century, they were brought in as familiar game animals for hunting rather than as a threat to the environment. Within decades, however, their ...

Agricultural: Rabbits consume a wide variety of crops, garden plants, and young trees, causing damage to agricultural fields, ...

European rabbits have plagued the Australian environment since 1859, when they were introduced to Australia near Geelong in Victoria. The spread of rabbits over Britain took 700 years. However, in ...

For more than a century, scientists took it for granted that only a single species of rabbit lived on the Iberian Peninsula, at most divided into two regional variants. A study published in ...

For more than a century, rabbits across the Iberian Peninsula were treated as a single species. However, new research suggests that assumption may have hidden a more urgent problem. One of those ...

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Biological invasions are the main cause of biodiversity loss, but they can also have serious social and economic repercussions. In Europe, over 13,000 non-native (or “alien”) species have an ...