2024-02 Rabbit Sweep Catalogue

Lots of rabbits

Rabbit Sweep
- a BLG Rabbit Action Group Project.

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Catalogue
and
Catalogue Workshop
Friday 16th February, 2024

What’s this?

The Rabbit Sweep project on the Bellarine has identified a problem for people seeking information relevant to their problems with rabbits.

In order to solve this problem, we are developing a catalogue of rabbit control resources. This will, when finished, be dynamic. You can add to it, and it will be available to everyone for free, suitable for groups to use by simply putting a link to it on their website, and, most importantly, make it much easier to find just what you want when you are dealing with rabbit-related problems. One thing the catalogue will also do is alert us to what information is not readily available - so precious resources can be used to provide that instead of things we already know!

Before we set up the catalogue, we want to check we have the right list of topics the resources might cover. Please let us know if you have additional suggestions...

And please share this email with appropriate communities….we invite everyone’s feedback to
A Comprehensive Rabbit Control Catalogue

Our aim is to produce a catalogue of resources for those wanting to control rabbits. We believe that if we can make it clear what resources are authoritative, what are anecdotal, what they are about, and how can you find more on the same topic, it will be much easier for landholders who are concerned about rabbits to gain the information and advice they need. The draft lists below show the attributes of resources that we believe are important to rabbit sweepers, and the list of topics shows the range of resources so it is easier to find what one wants.

For any resource, we want to know:
title
location (i.e. from where is it available)
author or authority
evidence (egresearch-based (show link to research) or anecdotal)
topic (see below)
other comments
And for the topic,, we aim for no more than 2 of the following:
integration of methods
identifying and recording rabbits
rabbit action schedule
scoping tasks
working with neighbours
exploding warrens
ripping warrens
manually destroying warrens
poisoning rabbits
fumigating rabbits
checking for collateral damage
checking Aboriginal heritage
disposing of dead rabbits
all about 1080
all about Pindone
all about fumigation
euthanasia of rabbits
rabbits and plants
rabbits and other animals
rabbits and gorse
rabbits and sheds
Where a resource covers lots of things, we might want to label it as being ‘integrated rabbit management’ or something like that?

Please help us make this a catalogue everyone can share by having just a single link on their website.

When developed, the catalogue will be available for Landcare and all other groups with resources to list them in the catalogue, and thus their resources will be findable in the catalogue. Please note that in the comments section it will be possible to rate the quality of the resource - is it something recognised as informative and accurate or otherwise...

Right now, we'd like your feedback about our lists....

and we'd love participation in our development workshop!

We have booked a room at the Leopold Library for those who would like to be in the same room as others doing the work, and a Zoom link for one hour for those who would like to join us online. Once we have the attribute and topic lists solved, it will be up to us all to add our own resources or our favourites to the catalogue, in our own time.

The workshop date is Friday, February 16, 10.00 am to 1.00 pm with a Zoom link for the first hour.
Please let us know if you can help - this is an important activity.
RSVP:

If you can convince a friend or associate to help us, please don't hesitate - this is a big job and we need all the help we can get.
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contact: rabbits @ Bellarinemac.org.au
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