Remove Deer Remove Fur Industry Remove Hedgehogs Remove Monkeys
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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? Useful species were ones you could eat, or hunt, or preferably both, which is why New Zealand had several species of deer, the alpine goat-antelopes known as the Chamois and the Himalayan Tahr introduced. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. Greenfinches?