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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? 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. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were. Greenfinches?

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You’re Not Helping

10,000 Birds

Even wiping out one species, like possums, or stoats, or hedgehogs is probably beyond current methods. Even wiping out a majority of mammals from the third biggest island is a challenge, and not just logistically. We are certainly many years away from being able to undertake a feat of that magnitude on one of the two main islands.