Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. To Victorian eyes the fauna and flora of New Zealand was strange, both in appearance and in its apparent paucity.
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