What is RabbitScan? Sponsors & Partners
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| Written by Rabbitscan |
| Monday, 23 February 2009 09:45 |
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"The fact that the community is involved in collecting rabbit data demonstrates the importance of understanding and controlling the rabbit menace to Australian rural communities" Renelle Jeffrey Project Manager, Australian Wool Innovation, Sustainable Production Systems
Mark Macfarlane, Vice President Eastern Australia, Santos
"Spatial Vision is proud to support RabbitScan to demonstrate how spatial technologies can empower the community to make a positive difference about their environment" Graeme Martin, Manager Consulting Division, Spatial Vision
 "The contributors to ‘Rabbiting-on’ show, with few notable exceptions, that we are a nation still preoccupied by the immense rabbit numbers of the past. We content ourselves by saying rabbits are not as abundant as they once were – but remain largely blind to the damage rabbits are still causing to Australia’s natural heritage. How can we simply dismiss rabbit control on the grounds that it is cruel or too hard or too costly while rabbits continue to eliminate unique ecosystems that have evolved over the millions of years since this continent split from the rest of Gondwanaland? They strike at the very essence of what makes this land unique." Dr Brian Cooke Invasive Animals CRC, University of Canberra
"RabbitScan is a truly worthwhile initiative. Rabbits have had a devastating environmental, agricultural and financial impact on Australia over the past 150 years. Elders is pleased to support the initiative and hopes to see producers, schools, landholders and community groups join in to build the national RabbitScan Map for Australia". Mark Geraghty, General Manager Marketing, Elders Limited Australian Government - DEWHA “Rabbits affect 156 threatened species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation At 1999” “Rabbits are a serious and widespread pest in Australia that cause major ecological impacts. As few as one rabbit per hectare inhibit natural regeneration of native vegetation”. Andrew Copp Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Australian Government representative Rabbit Management Advisory Group This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Queensland DPI "We need to increase everyone's awareness of where rabbits are, how many there are and what damage they are doing to the environment and economy." Dr David Berman Senior Zoologist Queensland DPI&F
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"Rabbits are a significant cost to the broadacre industries, estimated to cost $206M annually in production and natural resource losses. Understanding where rabbits are and their population densities will demonstrate current control methods are starting to wane and build evidence for industry and the science community to demonstrate the need for a new control method."
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"What ever the outcomes of climate change, generally speaking they will favour invasive species with broad ecological and habitat tolerance. This will exacerbate the impact rabbits have on the natural environment"
Greg Mutze - RMAG Member
SMS Messages For Rabbit Sightings
For people who travel and will be away from their computer but are keen to help, simply SMS to 0421 690 892 the following:- Rabbit numbers spotted (range from 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40 seen over a km walk or drive)
- location/s of sighting/s an address or GPS point
- when seen (date)
- senders name and phone number or email.
