Today’s Irish Times has an article about urban foxes in Ireland. Interesting, both because we have urban foxes in Canberra, and also because foxes are also an introduced species in Ireland – they only got the the Emerald Isle in the 1800’s, introduced by the Anglo-Irish landowning class so they could  have something else to kill – much as happened in Australia.

The other interesting this is that it’s lack of their primary food source – rabbits – not persecution that has caused the fox to move into urban centres in Ireland – and the obvious question is whether changes in rabbit population or agricultural practices have had a similar effect in Canberra