Those were the days eh Rushy
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Those were the days eh Rushy
Auckland Island Pigs Rescue - Auckland Island Pigs Rescue Project
From wiki
Ecologists eliminated or allowed to go extinct cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, possums and rabbits in the 1990s, but feral cats, pigs and mice remain on Auckland Island. The last rabbits on Enderby Island were removed in 1993 through the application of poison, also eradicating mice there
Auckland Islands have always fascinated me although I've never been there.
The possum skin buyer had some rabbit skins from there they were a blue black colour.
There's no possums there and it's all controlled by doc. Hard to get there and hard to get a permit to go ashore
Interesting that link
'The number of pigs on the island turned out to be lower than expected'
And from the link off that on the rare breeds page
' In January 1999 a Rare Breeds Society expedition rescued and removed seventeen pigs – including several pregnant sows – from Auckland Island prior to the eradication of the remaining animals by the Department of Conservation'