Rabbit Island

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Bunnies... who doesn't like theses little cute, fluffy and cuddly animals?

font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Be prepared to the incredible: there is even an
entire island where rabbits rule undisturbed… and I’m not talking about Alice
in Wonderland and the white rabbit!

font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Welcome to Japan’s Rabbit Island,font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Okunoshima, an island with a dark history, which
is now home to hundreds of wild adorable rabbits.

font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Japanese army, during World War II,
secretly produced over 6,000 tons of lethal gas on Okunoshima, which was even removed
from maps as the mission was top-secret and they brought a colony of rabbits to
the island in order to test the effects of the poison.

font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It is believed that those rabbits were all,
unfortunately, killed when the island was abandoned at the end of the war and
that the rabbits that are now on the island are the descendent of just eight
rabbits, brought to the island by schoolchildren in 1971, which multiplied until
they reached their present population of several hundreds.

font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now the island, a short ferry ride from the
mainland, is a popular tourist resort with a small golf course, camping
grounds, beautiful beaches and clear waters to swim. There also tours available
to visit the now derelict poison gas facilities and the ruins of military
outposts around the island.

font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With the island being a predator-free zone,
these friendly fluffy rabbits are free to stretch out in the sun, walk all
around, chase the tourists and appear in viral videos like this one …