Apparently there isn't enough of them....
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...on-bounce-back
Symbol of Easter and scourge of Mr McGregor, the rabbit may be the cute hero of children’s books but its rapid reproduction has traditionally made it a pest for farmers and gardeners.
Now, however, with British rabbit populations are being decimated by disease, the humble bunny is being hailed as an “ecosystem engineer” and landowners encouraged to create innovative “rabbit hotels” to revive its numbers.
The hotels – piles of branches artfully arranged near existing rabbit warrens – provide safety from burgeoning predators, and new places for female rabbits to burrow and give birth to their kits.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...on-bounce-back
Symbol of Easter and scourge of Mr McGregor, the rabbit may be the cute hero of children’s books but its rapid reproduction has traditionally made it a pest for farmers and gardeners.
Now, however, with British rabbit populations are being decimated by disease, the humble bunny is being hailed as an “ecosystem engineer” and landowners encouraged to create innovative “rabbit hotels” to revive its numbers.
The hotels – piles of branches artfully arranged near existing rabbit warrens – provide safety from burgeoning predators, and new places for female rabbits to burrow and give birth to their kits.
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