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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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Gamebirds, such as turkeys, pheasants, partridges, quail, Mallards and the like were also brought, as were popular sport fish. 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.

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Lake Eacham, Mt Hypipamee and Mount Molloy

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One final surprise was a Green Ringtail , an endemic possum. Lake Eacham is a crater lake that was once home to an endemic fish, but that species is gone from the lake due to introduced (but native) fishes (the species survies thanks to fish fanciers collecting them, however). They are usually pretty hard to see.

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