Remove Fur Industry Remove Game Remove Hedgehogs Remove Monkeys
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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. But man cannot live on bread alone, and the homesick settlers wanted more than just game. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here.