Mr John Watson, a senior conservation officer for the Department of Conservation, with a pine tree which was ring-barked by rabbits on Quail Island. Department staff laid poison across the island in late July and followed up with selective poisoning. None of the estimated 7000 rabbits, nor any signs of them, have been seen since. The rabbits were killing trees and causing soil and cliff side erosion in their search for food. Rabbits could reach the island from the mainland at low tide so the department is maintaining a monitoring programme. The department is replanting the island with original native species. —Photograph by CRAIG ROBERTSON.
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105Mr John Watson, a senior conservation officer for the Department of Conservation, with a pine tree which was ring-barked by rabbits on Quail Island. Department staff laid poison across the island in late July and followed up with selective poisoning. None of the estimated 7000 rabbits, nor any signs of them, have been seen since. The rabbits were killing trees and causing soil and cliff side erosion in their search for food. Rabbits could reach the island from the mainland at low tide so the department is maintaining a monitoring programme. The department is replanting the island with original native species. —Photograph by CRAIG ROBERTSON. Press, 28 December 1989, Page 16
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