Speaking to Farmer’s Weekly, Yolande Buhr, chairperson of the Natal Rabbit Club, said the inability to import new breeding stock into South Africa made maintaining genetic diversity increasingly difficult. The country’s moratorium on rabbit imports, imposed to protect against myxomatosis, meant breeders had to work with the genetics already available to them. The introduction of rabbit haemorrhagic disease around six years ago further reduced br…
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