Refuge Wildlife Biologist Kate O'Brien says vanishing habitat caused the once prolific species to decline over decades, but with help the population of the threatened rabbits is growing again.
Volunteers planting native elderberry and other shrubs to create New England Cottontail habitat on Cutts Island in Kittery in September.
"Since we've started managing habitat and working with our partners, they've started to uptick significantly, they're coming back to areas where they've gone vacant. They are recolonizing areas. There are still stretches of landscape where they're still missing from entire towns, but they are starting to make their way back," O'Brien says., a coalition of six states that are working together to augment the rabbits' population.
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