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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. One such individual was Sir George Grey, who liberated many animals on his estate (mercifully on an island), including wildebeest, monkeys, zebras, wallabies, deer, cassowaries, emu and kookaburras.