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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

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. Possums still strip our native forests, ferrets and stoats and possums still devastate our native birds.