I had always known a little bit about the rabbit situation in Australia, I’d at least heard of the rabbit-proof fence, but I got really interested in all of it when I started looking at Taryn Simon’s A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, which features images of and about “victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India.”
This is my 500th post!
a. Haigh’s chocolate Easter Bilby replaced Haigh’s Easter Bunny in 1993. Haigh’s stopped making chocolate bunnies and joined forces with the Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia in an effort to counter the annual celebration of rabbits. Product of Haigh’s Chocolates, Adelaide.
b. Rabbits killed with .22 Magnum rifles by NatureCall, an organization hired to eliminate rabbits from private properties. Dead rabbits are laid out to record data, including sex, age, pregnancy, and active virus status. Cattle-grazing property west of Kingaroy, Queensland.
From “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters”
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Posted October 25th, 2012
