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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself.

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. And it is a rate of extinction that is speeding up!

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