Rabbit Hotels
Plummeting rabbit populations across the United Kingdom have prompted its National Heritage organization to ask landowners to create innovative rabbit “hotels” to help the bunnies survive.
A new rabbit hemorrhagic viral disease has seen rabbit numbers decrease by 88% in the East Midlands and 83% in Scotland between 1996 and 2018. Across all of Britain, populations fell by 43% between 2008 and 2018. The Shifting Sands project asks people to arrange piles of branches around rabbit warrens to provide safety from predators and to create new sites for females to give birth. Experts say the grazing rabbits promote wildlife diversity, helping rare plants and invertebrates to thrive.
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