May 10 2025 Rabbit Blitz

We had three venues with three different activities and then lunch at one of them. We covered many different tasks, especially as we had contractors who could share their expertise. We are grateful to Parks Victoria, the City of Greater Geelong, the Victorian Rabbit Action Network experts Tim Bloomfield and Brad Spear, the BLG Facilitator Sophie, and David Lucas and the BLG RAG. In particular, we are grateful to the landholders who made their land available and paid for the implosions.

Our image shows the effect of placing small explosives in a warren and destroying the warren after the rabbits are fumigated. This work makes a huge difference to the outcome but needs to be done by experts - see how the vegetation is preserved.

We also consider a good shooter may be necessary as a final step in controlling the rabbits and Wayne Watson turned up just to offer this service! Thank you also to Andrew Wilkens (rabbit proof fencing) and Matthew Cobb (excavator) for bringing their expertise to the Blitz.

Being Landcare, we did on-ground work but not just as a demo - participants could try some of the tasks and ask as many 'silly' questions as they liked. This strikes us as a better way to learn and for us to spread the word, than lectures inside somewhere. And for this we were rewarded with fantastic weather!