Remove Ferrets Remove Fur Remove Mammals
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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Sorry for banging on about black-footed ferrets, but here’s a bit on why this trip was so special to me: Forty years ago the black-footed ferret was a bit more like the Loch Ness Monster than it is today. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. Possums still strip our native forests, ferrets and stoats and possums still devastate our native birds. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural.