Rabbit plagues in Australia have occurred several times throughout parts of Australia since wild European rabbits were introduced by European colonists...
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European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were first introduced to Australia in the 18th century with the First Fleet, and later became widespread, because...
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First Fleet in 1788. Australia and China are the two countries in the world where plagues of mice are known to occur. Mouse plagues occur in southern and...
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prevalent in Europe and Australia. Two cases of this strain were found in the Bay of Plenty in 2018. Similar to rabbit plagues in Australia, New Zealand...
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read of the effectiveness of the myxomatosis virus in dealing with rabbit plagues in Australia, in 1952 Armand-Delille decided to intentionally introduce...
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The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion...
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extant species in the genus Oryctolagus. The European rabbit has faced a population decline in its native range due to myxomatosis, rabbit haemorrhagic...
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of the Angry Rabbit is a science fiction novel by Australian author Russell Braddon, in which giant mutant rabbits run amok in Australia while the Prime...
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mute dog, Gromit, in their latest venture as pest control agents. They come to the rescue of their town, which is plagued by rabbits, before the annual...
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plagues and responding to the New South Wales government's offer of £25,000 for a novel solution to the country's rabbit pest problem, he arrived in Australia...
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to control rodent plagues occurred in rural areas of Western Australia and Victoria in the 1860s, the Warrego River in Queensland in 1874. Cats were seen...
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however, of allowing the first curbs to the rabbit plague in Australia via myxomatosis, which had not spread in the dry era since 1922 because of the absence...
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Frank Fenner (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
smallpox, and the attempted control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. The Australian Academy of Science awards annually...
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wild rabbits in Australia. Rabbit haemorrhagic disease escaped containment from an Australian Government research facility and spread across Australia. Rabbit...
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Beulah, Victoria (category Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2016 ID not in Wikidata)
the closest to the rabbit-proof fence, established in the first decade of the 20th century to prevent the incursion of rabbit plagues. Beulah was the location...
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rabbits. The bacteria are cosmopolitan, mainly in rodents on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. The greatest frequency of human plague infections...
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two events may be two successive outbreaks of the same plague, or possibly two different plagues entirely. While it is universally accepted letter EA 35...
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Black-shouldered kite (redirect from Australian Black-shouldered Kite)
plagues or from pesticides used during locust plagues. Populations in areas with high sheep and rabbit numbers may decline, as these animals compact the...
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Ferret (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2024)
to control rabbit plagues there in 6 BC; it is speculated that "viverrae" could refer to ferrets, mongooses, or polecats. In England, in 1390, a law...
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Charles Martin (physiologist) (category Australian military personnel of World War I)
control plagues of rabbits. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1923 and delivered the Royal College of Physicians Croonian Lectures in 1930...
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Night of the Lepus (category Films about rabbits and hares)
created through the rabbits), and moved its setting from Australia to Arizona. Principal photography took place at the Old Tucson Studios in Tucson, Arizona...
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Rodd Island (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
microbe to control Australia's rabbit population. Louis Pasteur sent his nephew, Doctor Adrien Loir to conduct the experimentation in Australia and facilities...
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Natasha Wanganeen (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
20 June 1984) is an Aboriginal Australian actress. She is known for her starring role in the 2002 feature film Rabbit-Proof Fence and numerous television...
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Dingo (redirect from Economic impact of dingoes in Australia)
Tableland, no rabbits occur nor does any native species dominate the diet, except for long-haired rats that form occasional plagues. In the Fortescue...
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Eucla Telegraph Station. Eucla Airport Rabbits in Australia List of extreme temperatures in Australia Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Eucla...
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Tularemia (redirect from Pahvant Valley plague)
Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. Symptoms may include fever, skin ulcers...
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Macquarie Island (category World Heritage Sites in Australia)
island plagued by rabbits". News Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 15 July 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2007. "Rabbits blamed for penguin deaths in landslide"...
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intersection of the railway and the State Barrier Fence of Western Australia (the "rabbit-proof fence"). The section of the railway passing through Campion...
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Sam Byrne (painter) (redirect from Sam Byrne (Australian painter))
of subjects that held a personal fascination for him; Broken Hill's rabbit plagues, Sturt's desert peas, dust storms, industrial riots, and pioneering...
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vaccine to the plague was first developed in 1897 by Waldemar Haffkine who demonstrated that a heat-killed culture of Y. pestis protected rabbits from infection...
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