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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. The first to do so was the humble House Sparrow, which was brought to help control caterpillars but soon reached such numbers it was the subject of control itself. Not everything that was brought and released established itself.