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Extinct species

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Download the PDF file (100 KB) for a table listing all the species that are known to have become extinct since the arrival of humans in New Zealand.

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Julia Haggerty and Hugh Campbell, Farming and the environment – Biodiversity and greenhouse gas changes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/17908/extinct-species (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Julia Haggerty and Hugh Campbell, published 1 March 2009.