Grant Recipients

Reports

• Katherine Moseby, 2004
• Josh Griffiths, 2004
• Greg Mutze, 2004

An important role of RFA is to support and encourage rabbit control research and development.

RFA income for supporting rabbit control research fell dramatically following the establishment of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease (RHD) in Australia in 1996.  The reduction in rabbit numbers caused by RHD resulted in rabbit control and rabbit research and development slipping down the national and state lists of things to be done. We are grateful to the sponsors and people who have continued to support us.

The Foundation consolidated its financial position during this period of complacency, highly conscious that further rabbit R&D would be necessary to prevent rabbits again causing the economic and environmental losses that occurred pre-RHD.

The following projects have been funded by RFA:

2007:

$2000 Postgraduate Research Grant awarded to Maija Marsh whose research project is titled Causes of local variation in the impact of RHDV on rabbit populations. This grant supported a visit by Dr Piran White from the University of York, UK, to provide assistance with fieldwork, collaborate more closely with Maija and other Australian researchers, and to develop further joint research topics on RHDV dynamics and rabbit control. Extra funding was also provided to enable Dr. White and Maija Marsh to travel to Adelaide and give a seminar to RFA members.

2004:

$1,000 to support Katherine Moseby, Roxby Downs, to extend information from a rabbit control project. More>>

$1,000 to provide Josh Griffiths, The University of Adelaide, with logistic support for his Project on competition between rabbits and bilbies. More>>

$1,500 to allow Greg Mutze, Animal and Plant Control Commission, to travel to Italy and Portugal to attend the 2nd International Lagomorph Conference, and to consult with overseas scientists. S. Kidman & Co. provided an additional $1,500 through RFA. More>>

2002 :

$10,000 to seed an extension of the Rabbit Calicivirus Research Project, with $30,000 provided by S. Kidman & Co. The funding package was drawn together by the RFA Chairman, Nicholas Newland. This was an emergency measure which the RFA committee decided to fund, although we had not reached our target level of savings.