Control of Rabbit Populations

We, the undersigned Residents of Tasmania, draw to the attention of the House the significant issues faced by rural and peri-urban communities in Tasmania due to significant increases in the population of rabbits around Tasmania and the damage being caused by this introduced, invasive species to the environment and infrastructure in these communities.

Your petitioners request that the House call on the Government to:

• Work with the Federal Government to secure a reliable means of controlling the invasive rabbit population in Tasmania beyond the reliance on a single laboratory,
• Work with the Federal Government and landowners to develop alternative biocontrol measures to mitigate the exponentially increasing rabbit populations, 
• Create a grant scheme that will fairly compensate community groups, organisations, departments, and farmers in exceptional circumstances who have used their own resources to deal with the plague impacts caused by government inaction, including to rebuild structures compromised by warrens.