Australia's Rabbit Plague
The battle against billions of rabbits devastating the Australian countryside
Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service
November 27, 20149m 25s
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Show Notes
For decades, Australia's countryside was ravaged by billions of rabbits. So in the 1950s, the government released the disease myxomatosis to kill off the rabbit plague. We hear from farmer, Bill McDonald, who remembers Australia's battle against the bunnies.
(Photo: Rabbits around a waterhole at the myxomatosis trial enclosure on Wardang Island in 1938. Credit: National Archives of Australia)