Letter of the month

A way out of virus warren

I am writing from Guernsey, where we have been fortunate to have largely escaped the privations of the coronavirus. Life has pretty much carried on as normal – no masks or limitations on group sizes, pubs and eateries open as normal.

But there is a virus that has left its mark on our island. I refer to Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease (RHD). This virus has decimated our once buoyant local rabbit population to a point where, for many years,