Tourist feeding helped Japan’s famous Rabbit Island push past natural limits; now stripped of vegetation, wild boars are attacking rabbits
Rabbit lures tourists to Japanese island Unregulated tourist feeding has pushed Japan’s famous “Rabbit Island” to its natural ecological limits, depleting local plant resources and causing wild boars to prey on live rabbits.On Ōkunoshima in Hiroshima Prefecture, heavy feeding by tourists has caused the rabbit population to far exceed the natural carrying capacity of the … Read more