Editing Rabbits in Australia (section)

====Western Australia====
[[File:RabbitProofFence.JPG|thumb|right|The No. 1 rabbit-fence in Western Australia (1926)]]
{{Main|Rabbit-proof fence (Western Australia)}}
From 1901 to 1907, the [[rabbit-proof fence]] was built in Western Australia between [[Cape Keraudren]] and [[Esperance, Western Australia|Esperance]] to try to control the spread of the rabbit population from the east into Western Australian pastoral areas. Given that [[European rabbits]] can both jump very high and burrow underground,<ref>{{cite book |title=The encyclopedia of mammals |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199206087 |editor-last=MacDonald |editor-first=David |edition=New |location=Oxford |oclc=83049827}}</ref> a perfectly intact fence stretching for hundreds of kilometres, and whose gates farmers or graziers did not leave open for livestock or machinery, was still unlikely to succeed.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} As such, the Number 1 Rabbit-Proof Fence, which was erected in 1901, failed to keep the rabbit population away from the protected area.<ref>{{cite book |title=They all ran wild : the story of pests on the land in Australia. |last=Rolls |first=Eric C. |author-link1=Eric Charles Rolls |date=1969 |publisher=Angus and Robertson |isbn=978-0207950360 |location=Sydney |oclc=924872335}}</ref> Even after this large scale fence had failed, smaller scale fencing projects continued to make a successful appearance.<ref name=":1"/>