Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. But man cannot live on bread alone, and the homesick settlers wanted more than just game.
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