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Dear CanberraBirders,
I am forwarding the email below from Tony Peacock, CEO
of Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, encouraging you to be invovled
in the RabbitScan project. Further information on the project is available from
the RabbitScan link at the end of Tony's message.
Harvey
Harvey
Perkins
CRC Strategy and Communication
Section
_______________________________________
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and
Research
Hi
All,
Our CRC
is running “RabbitScan” throughout May (and beyond). We are trying to
determine the distribution and density of rabbits in Australia.
We know that rabbits are coming back after more than a decade significant relief
through calicivirus. When we look, we are finding populations further
north than our current maps indicate and in great densities in some coastal
areas, for example. The densities are important, because we have a greater
awareness of the impact of low rabbit numbers on native
vegetation.
RabbitScan only takes about an hour of your time, or
less. You register a site on the RabbitScan site, then log rabbits seen,
plant damage and indicators of rabbits (scats).
Please
join us in getting your community involved – ask those in your network to do a
RabbitScan as well (or three or four!), but try and go for a walk this week and
log on yourself. We did it as a family in an area we walk a lot, but it
was quite a different experience for us to take note of rabbit signs and damage
– the boys found three warrens that we must have walked past a hundred times
before and never really noted.
Thanks
for your help. Link to RabbitScan is below.
Cheers,
Tony.
Prof. Tony Peacock
Chief Executive
Invasive Animals Cooperative Research
Centre
Pathfinders: The Innovators Conference
May 26-28 2009 Canberra
May 2009 is RabbitScan
month
An Australian
Government Cooperative Research Centre
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+61 (0)2 6201 2532
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