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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were.