The hunting club of Cartaya, Huelva province, is coming to the rescue to address the rabbit problem which is affecting Sevilla Airport.
The club’s president, Manuel Botillo, told El Mundo newspaper that the rabbit population around the airport is so great that the birds of prey they attract pose a serious threat to aircraft.
The club’s members have captured 100 rabbits in the past month, using ferrets to drive them out into nets which have been placed around the burrows. They were all set free in the designated hunting area of the Cartaya countryside last weekend, an area where the rabbit population has been seriously depleted by disease.
The club has applied for permission to deploy their ferrets and nets at the airport again this month, and hopes to repeat the operation periodically throughout the year.
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