Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. To Victorian eyes the fauna and flora of New Zealand was strange, both in appearance and in its apparent paucity.
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