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Possum Fact Sheet
Zealand native plants and animals from pests. So why did people bring possums to New Zealand? Possums were brought to New Zealand to start a fur industry. At the height of the fur trade, trappers killed 20 million possums ...
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Euan Mason's personal views
West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It calls into question what we mean when we say we wish to live in ... to leave the forests unmanaged is not sustainable because of the influences of introduced pests. Possums, rats, stoats and wasps are degrading our native forest ecosystems as you read this. Pest ...
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Turning the tide: the eradication of invasive species
Mauritius, Indian Ocean (p. 40) B. D. Bell The eradication of possums from Kapiti Island, New Zealand (p. 46) K. P. Brown and G. H. Sherley The impact of ... eradicating tussock moths from suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand (p. 407) J. R. Clearwater Recovery of invertebrate populations on Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand following eradication of Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) ( ...
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Nature & Co New Zealand - Forest Birds Hauraki Gulf
Zealand - Forest Birds Hauraki Gulf Home Site Index Interactive Latest Updates Main sections ---------------------- ... Island, are occasionally reported. Little Barrier Island is one of New Zealand's most important nature reserves. It can be visited, but a ... on Great Barrier Island, but it is free of Norwegian rats, possums and mustelids (stoats, ferrets). The island retains a population of kaka, ...
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David Norton - People - New Zealand School of Forestry - University of Canterbury - New Zealand
New Zealand. Ecological Management and Restoration 1: 29-37. Norton, D.A. 2000. Benefits of possum control for indigenous vegetation. In: T. Montague (ed). Possums in New Zealand: The Biology, ... of New Zealand . New Zealand Journal of Botany 42 : 45-76. Norton, D.A. & Roper-Lindsay, J. 2004. Assessing significance for biodiversity conservation on private land in New Zealand . New Zealand ...
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Natureandco.com - National Parks of New Zealand - Te Urewera National Park
Other endangered birds include kiwi, red and yellow-crowned parakeets, kaka, New Zealand pigeon, New Zealand falcon, and blue duck. There have been unconfirmed sightings of the officially extinct ... fish kukupa. Introduced species A range of introduced species also inhabit the park, including possums, deer, pigs, goats, cats, rats, dogs, mice and mustelids. While most of them threaten ...
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Conservation: New Zealand Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
DOC is responsible for New Zealand's marine reserves, marine mammals and the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement. Native plants Eighty per cent of New Zealand's trees, ferns and flowering ... conservation View information on the economic benefits of conserving our natural and historic heritage. Possums Introduced to New Zealand in 1837 to establish a fur trade, the possum has become one of ...
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Extinct Birds of New Zealand
New Zealand Species that became extinct after people arrived in New Zealand Extinctions before people arrived in New Zealand What ... to live. People brought new predators to New Zealand - like rats, dogs, possums, pigs, cats and stoats. These new predators ... Zealand skies - the New Zealand or giant eagle. The giant eagle was endemic to New Zealand, which means it was only found in New Zealand ...
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Plague of Possums
World Wildlife Fund New Zealand sanctions "the commercial harvesting of possums, as one measure that can assist in eradicating the species completely from New Zealand." "We support killing possums," said Eric Pyle, conservation director of WWFNZ. "We'd like to see all possums as dead possums, and the fur industry ...
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New Zealand Journal of Ecology
New Zealand Science Review and as the Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society until 1977). The Journal is published by the New Zealand Ecological Society (Inc.), and ... article Interspecific and seasonal dietary differences of Himalayan thar, chamois and brushtail possums in the central Southern Alps, New Zealand John P. Parkes and David M. Forsyth Pages: 46–56 Abstract | ...
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