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You’re Not Helping

10,000 Birds

As most people know cats, both feral and domestic, have a pretty big impact on wild birds and other wildlife, and the effect of mammals is particularly profound in New Zealand. Even wiping out a majority of mammals from the third biggest island is a challenge, and not just logistically.

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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. Possums still strip our native forests, ferrets and stoats and possums still devastate our native birds. Greenfinches? What exactly was going on.