In the 1800's, white Australians wanted to hunt. So, they brought rabbits to eastern Australia. It was a bad idea. Soon, there was an overabundance, or very too many, rabbits. Rabbits started to invade, or take over, farms in the western part of Australia. They ate up all the grass and the ground was left bare. They ate people's crops, which they used for food. They ate everything they could and caused a lot of damage. They were also pests and got into people's homes. After about a hundred years, the government couldn't deal with the pests any longer and they decided to kill the rabbits.