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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. 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. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here.

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Familiar Faces in Guyana

10,000 Birds

We began our journey in the famed Botanical Gardens in Georgetown, took our first taste of the land of many waters , poked around a friend’s farm , and at long last, began our journey into the wild green heart of the country. Suddenly, I felt as if I had been transported to a hundred million years prior.

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