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Kōrero: Introduced animal pests

Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa

Mai i te whārangi 1 - Impact of animals on the bush

Loss of forest

Go forth and multiply

Go forth and multiply

Damaged and undamaged forest

Damaged and undamaged forest

Joseph Banks’s journal

Joseph Banks’s journal

Mai i te whārangi 2 - Possums

Possum trappers

Possum trappers

Possum damage

Eating eggs

Loading possum bait

Loading possum bait

Mai i te whārangi 3 - Rats and mice

Kiore stowaways

Kiore stowaways

Ship-rat nest

Rat attacking a nest

Rat attacking a nest

Bait tubes

Bait tubes (1 o 2)

Taking the bait

Taking the bait (2 o 2)

Mai i te whārangi 4 - Stoats and cats

Stoat with rabbit kill

Stoat with rabbit kill

Three mustelids

Three mustelids

Poisoning eggs

Dead predators

Mai i te whārangi 5 - Deer, goats, pigs and wasps

New Zealand game

New Zealand game

Red beech forest

Red beech forest

‘Judas goat’

‘Judas goat’

Pig rooting, Wairau valley

Pig rooting, Wairau valley (1 o 2)

Pig rubbing damage

Pig rubbing damage (2 o 2)

German wasps

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

Bob Brockie, 'Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/introduced-animal-pests/media (accessed 31 March 2023)

He kōrero nā Bob Brockie, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007, updated 1 Jul 2015