World-Famous Rabbit Island Is at Risk From Wild Boars

World-famous Rabbit Island is at risk from wild boars

A Japanese island filled with bunnies, called Okunoshima and nicknamed 'Rabbit Island', is facing a strange tourism issue, researchers warn.

Japan’s Rabbit Island in danger of becoming Boar Island, tourists asked to follow feeding rules

One of the cutest places in Japan needs visitors’ help keeping rabbit food, and rabbits themselves, from becoming boar food. There’s an island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea called Okunoshima. Written with the kanji 大久野島, Okunoshima’s name translates roughly to “Island with a Field from Long Ago,” which, to be honest, is a description you could apply to a lot of places in Japan. However, Okunoshima’s nickname is much more specifically descriptive: R…