Table of Contents:
  • History of introductions and spread
  • Distribution and abundance
  • Biology
  • Economic and environmental impacts
  • Attitudes to rabbit use, animal welfare and new technology
  • Past and current management
  • Techniques to measure and control rabbit impact and abundance
  • Economics of rabbit management
  • Strategic management at the local and regional levels : principles
  • Strategic management approach applied locally : some examples
  • Implementing management
  • Deficiencies in knowledge, techniques and legislation
  • Control techiques
  • Stategic rabbit management in plantation forests
  • Strategic rabbit management in conservation areas