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New Zealand exports wallabies to Australia
"A group of 100 rare wallabies are to arrive in Australia Friday after New Zealand environment authorities decided to export them rather than shoot them, the New Zealand Herald reported.
"Tammar or scrub wallaby (macrupus eugenii*) have largely disappeared from the Australian mainland but hundreds of them have for over a century lived on Kawau Island, north of Auckland, where they are regarded as pests for the way they consume local vegetation.
"They were bought to New Zealand in 1852 by British Governor George Grey who had just left South Australia where he held the same post. He also brought bush-tailed rock wallabies (petrogale penicillata), zebras and antelope but only the wallabies remain ..."
Source: Terra Daily, Your Portal to Earth
[* Sic. It's actually macropus eugenii, pictured]
New Zealand exports wallabies to Australia
"A group of 100 rare wallabies are to arrive in Australia Friday after New Zealand environment authorities decided to export them rather than shoot them, the New Zealand Herald reported.
"Tammar or scrub wallaby (macrupus eugenii*) have largely disappeared from the Australian mainland but hundreds of them have for over a century lived on Kawau Island, north of Auckland, where they are regarded as pests for the way they consume local vegetation.
"They were bought to New Zealand in 1852 by British Governor George Grey who had just left South Australia where he held the same post. He also brought bush-tailed rock wallabies (petrogale penicillata), zebras and antelope but only the wallabies remain ..."
Source: Terra Daily, Your Portal to Earth
[* Sic. It's actually macropus eugenii, pictured]
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