News and comment

01 November 1995
Comments News and comment We mentioned last month (Brit. Birds 88: 490) that a way had been found of securing money for conservation from the National Lottery through the National Heritage Memorial Fund. News has now reached us that a grant from this fund of £75,147 has been g...
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News and comment

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Although the Chinese say they acquired it from Eastern Europe, it appears that a particularly virulent virus that affects Old World Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus spread into Europe from China in about 1984. Within ten years it had probably killed over ...
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