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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. 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. Greenfinches? What exactly was going on.