Good rainfall in recent years leads to an explosion of rabbits on NSW farms, leading to some farmers employing professional shooters to cull the numbers.
Professional shooters are killing thousands of feral rabbits each night as numbers explode on NSW farms.Scientists say biological control , like calicivirus, is the best way to suppress rabbit numbers, but effectiveness wanes over time.
"We're shooting over a wide area. Some places are more dense than others, but it's at least a couple of hundred per night and we might get upwards of 1,400 to 1,500 on a big night."Mr Hancock and his father-in-law, David Carter, spend up to eight hours a night shooting using high-tech gear, including thermal cameras and rifles with silencers.
"We've paid out somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 in the past year to try to get this problem under control," he said.More than 28 tonnes of carrots have also been used to lure then poison rabbits on Riverina farms this year. Erinvale farmer Bernard Hart praised the coordinated effort to contain what he described as an explosion of rabbit numbers after summer rainfall.
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