For most of the world, rabbits are harmless pets. But in Australia, they're an economic and environmental disaster. Introduced by British settlers in the mid-eighteen hundreds for sport hunting, rabbits found an ideal habitat—no natural predators, boundless grassland. Their population exploded. Today, hundreds of millions of rabbits devastate the landscape and torment Australian farmers, despite ongoing eradication efforts. According to France 24, this invasive species has become one of Australia's most persistent ecological crises.

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