Rabbits Lay Bare An Island
The lean times have rehabilitated the rabbit, which is no longer looked on as a pest but as an addition to the weekly ration. Be that as it may, we learn from an American journal that Australia was not the only place where the rabbit multiplied and the farmers were at their wits-end to get rid of it. On the island of Layshn, which is between Midway Islands and Hawaii, there grew a rare kind of mint found nowhere else, but in 1903 someone introduced rabbits there, and in ten years they had multiplied in ! thousands, and had eaten all the mint, reducing Laysan to a sandy waste. Now they are trying to get rid of the rabbits.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 3
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