If the so called “do gooders” continued to allow the use of rabbit traps they would have controlled as in the 70s and 80s.
I used to love catching 3or4 for eating. It was thought that the traps would hurt the animals and certainly it often broke legs. The calicivirus is just as bad as myxomotosis and is just bloody cruel but it is considered to be ok. Traps were emptied daily while the diseases starve the animals to death.
Let the traps be legalised again and allow people to get a feed.