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12-20-2006, 08:49 PM
Every native animal in NZ that is not extinct, is carefully protected and looked after. Certainly stoats, weasels, ferrets, possums, pigs, rabbits, deer, cats, rats and mice are not native and do not do anything for our native animal population and our forests/bush. Pigs and deer(and other deer-like animals such as thar) are hunted as game, possums and rabbits are the worse and there are extensive extermination programmes. Incidently they have uncovered bones of a kind of alligator, 17 million years old which proves that NZ did have reptiles other than the dinosaur-type creatures, a long, long time ago.
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