Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. To understand the impulse, we need to go back to New Zealand in the Victorian era, in the early days of European settlement. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.
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