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Rabbit calicivirus news (CSIRO, Australia)

This site has questions and answers about the rabbit calicivirus – a good starting point for information about this topic – and press releases from August 1995 monitoring the spread of the virus.
http://www.csiro.au/communication/rabbits/rabbits.htm

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• The cactoblastis moth (The Science Show, 7 April 2007)
  Tracks the successes and failures of the use of cactoblastic moth as a biological control.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1890832.htm

• Mulga miracle – calici aftermath (The Slab, 16 November 2000)
  Covers the effectiveness of rabbit calicivirus in reducing rabbit numbers and the impact of fewer rabbits in Australia's southern arid zone.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/calici/

• The feral outrage
  Transcript of Ockham's Razor, 17 November 1996. Professor Rob Morrison, Chair of the Anti-Rabbit Research Foundation, presents the benefits and perceived costs of introducing rabbit calicivirus into Australia. He also covers the concept of risk and risk perception.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/or171196.htm

• The bunny bug – friend or foe?
  Transcript of Background Briefing, 21 April 1996. Good discussion of the events surrounding the escape of the calicivirus from Wardang Island. Contributors from Australia and overseas express different points of view.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s61.htm

Rabbits – prospects for long term control: mortality and fertility control (Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Australia)

This paper was prepared for the Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council's meeting on 13 September 1996. It provides an overview of the problem of rabbits in Australia, existing methods for controlling this pest, the role for rabbit calicivirus disease and longer term prospects for other control measures including the use of fertility control agents.
http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/Science/pmsec/14meet/rcd1.html