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Rabbits - considered the most destructive introduced pest in Australia - cause damage in the following ways.
Seven rabbits are said to each eat as much as one sheep, but they breed much more quickly. Their ability to increase rapidly and spread meant they literally ate their way across the nation. Grass, crops, young plants and trees are some of the things they consider delicious. Their diet, though, results in large areas of land being made into eroded wastelands. Revegetation is difficult unless they have been depleted in an area by introduced viruses. They particularly destroy leguminous plants which cannot then enrich the soil. These useful plants are replaced by weedy varieties that thrive on lower nutrient-rich soil.
Rabbits also compete with and displace the native animals which do not breed as rapidly. Rabbit mothers produce about five litters a year, with about six new little rabbits in each. This is thought to have affected the Bilby population, as just one example.

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