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Agency: Veterinary Surgeries Currency: February - April 2013 Position: Please distribute to staff and clients as appropriate IMPORTANT PUBLIC NOTICE Northern Sydney Regional Rabbit Control Program RHDV (virus) release Scheduled for late March 2013 Please be advised that an ongoing feral rabbit control program will be undertaken in public open space in northern Sydney in 2013. The aim of the program is to reduce feral rabbit numbers and thereby reduce the negative impacts of feral rabbits. Rabbits are a declared pest species. Competition and land degradation by feral rabbits is listed as a key threatening process to threatened Australian native animals, plants and Endangered Ecological Communities under the Commonwealth Endangered Species Protection Act 1992 and the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act (1995). Rabbits are also causing public nuisance and significant damage to playing fields, public parks and private property in northern Sydney. RHDV or Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus is a virus in solution applied to chopped carrots. Carrots will be died green to identify them. WARNING FOR OWNERS OF DOMESTIC RABBITS RHDV spreads through rabbit to rabbit contact and via biting insects. RHDV is species specific, RHDV affects only rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). RHDV is not harmful to native animals, or domestic pets other than rabbits. Pet rabbits can be affected. To protect your pet vaccinate your rabbit. Alternatively house pet rabbits in a mosquito proof enclosure away from contact with wild rabbits. For best protection vaccinate prior to the 1st March RHDV baits will be laid in late March (weather permitting). The release may be delayed to April if weather conditions are not suitable. Baits will be laid in select reserves and public open space in northern Sydney. For more information contact: Cumberland Livestock Health and Pest Authority Camden office 4655 9165. National Parks and Wildlife Service (Metro North East) Senior Ranger - Pests: 9472 8953 Your local council office: Hills Shire Council, Hornsby Shire Council, Hunters Hill Council, Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council, Lane Cove Council, Manly Council, Mosman Council, North Sydney Council, Parramatta Council, Pittwater Council, Ryde City Council, Warringah Council, Willoughby City Council.