First, it was rats.  The Scottish island of Canna, located in the Inner Hebrides and owned by the National Trust for Scotland, spent over £600,000 pounds four years ago to rid the island of rats.  Starting in 2005, pest control experts from New Zealand flew 11,000 miles to lay down poison at over 4,200 locations on the sparsely-populated island to kill more than 10,000 brown rats that had taken over the place.  Now, without the rats around, Canna is infested with rabbits.

That’s right, the island is now rabbit central.  With no more predators around to kill off the evil bunnies, they’re ruining everything in sight:  they’re burrowing into an ancient Iron Age funeral mound, destroying foundations, and eating the gardens that the island’s 20-odd residents depend on for sustenance.   The National Trust acknowledges the problem, but they have no current solutions to kill off the rabbit population.

However, I do have a solution to the bunny problem.  They could always reintroducing rats back onto the island.  That seemed to control the bunny population last time.

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