'The National Park will be a bloodbath': Animal rights activist slams rabbit cull

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A cull of wild rabbits at Derrynane National Park will turn the landscape into a 'bloodbath,' an animal rights activist has said.

A cull of wild rabbits at Derrynane National Park will turn the landscape into a"bloodbath," an animal rights activist has said.

"I mean, I've been working on these campaigns for years and you know, we've had targets on deer, we've had targets on seals and now we're hearing about the rabbits population in Derrynane," he said. "It's being done with a view to the future and the protection of the biodiversity down there and a very, very, very sensitive ecosystem, in terms of the dune system that's there at Derrynane," she said.

"There's a serious imbalance taking place, because of the overgrazing we don't have that very important grassland that effectively knits the dunes together and protects the area from further erosion," she said.A European Rabbit on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland "Quite essentially, that beautiful National Park is going to turn into a bloodbath," he said.

 

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