Remove Fur Remove Possums Remove Transported
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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. 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. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.