stackyFACTSIn 1859, an affluent settler released two dozen rabbits into the Australian wild simply because he wanted to hunt them. Without natural predators, the rabbits bred exponentially, ravaging the native vegetation and causing an ecological catastrophe so severe that the state is still aggressively trying to eradicate them over a century later.
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