The brown hare is an important component of agro-ecosystems and is also considered a good indicator species for habitat changes or predator-control interventions. Predator management to protect Great bustards can therefore affect this small game species. Our study aimed to assess this impact in an experiment, where we estimated the abundance of the brown hare using spotlight count in three National Park study sites and an independent but similar control habitat and we surveyed the populations of red fox, Eurasian badger and hooded crow between 2021 and 2023. The effectiveness of predator management was characterised by the culling rate. The population size of the brown hare did not change over the years. No correlation was found between predator culling rate and hare population size. The population size of predators also did not vary with changes in the intensity of the culling rate, except for the red fox in the control area. Here, the population size of foxes decreased as a result of more intense predator removal. Overall, the experiment did not provide clear evidence of a positive effect of predator management, as in many other studies, but this may have been due to the small sample size (short period). It is also possible that the habitats are currently able to support this amount of hare and that further habitat development and predator management would be necessary to significantly increase the population size.