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Archive Home > 2012 > August > 11 > Cute, cuddly and ecologically devastating

Cute, cuddly and ecologically devastating

• In the Northwest — and throughout the world — rabbits upend the natural systems of islands

By Craig Welch / The Bulletin
August 11, 2012

DESTRUCTION ISLAND, Wash. — Peter Hodum crouched high above the crashing surf and jammed his arm into a tunnel of dirt.

An infrared camera was strapped to his face, and his right hand held the cordlike lens, which he snaked through a long earthen bunker that had been dug by a bird.

The biologist....

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