QUICK FACT: “Lost” for 120+ years, recently rediscovered via intensive camera-trapping.

THREATS: Subsistence hunting, fires, logging, and potential risk from rabbit hemorrhagic disease variant 2.

IMPORTANCE: Shapes plant communities through browsing and supports predators as an essential prey species.

Photo credit: Stephen John Davies

QUICK FACT: “Lost” for 120+ years, recently rediscovered via intensive camera-trapping.

THREATS: Subsistence hunting, fires, logging, and potential risk from rabbit hemorrhagic disease variant 2.

IMPORTANCE: Shapes plant communities through browsing and supports predators as an essential prey species.

Photo credit: Stephen John Davies