Why don’t we want to see these animals on the NZ bush?

Possums are destroying our beautiful green trees and plants. Possums will munch through around 9,000 tonnes of leaves, berries and fruit every night. 

They damage they can do?

They are Omnivores so that means they eat meat and veggies. Equivalent to 190 hamburgers each night

30 million possums in New Zealand

Babies - 6-25 young one to three times a year, usually between January and July. 13 will survive because mum has 13 teats.

Why are they Nocturnal ? - They smell best at night.

Eyes - Yellow/Red at night.

Traveling - travel alone but do stay in the same tree but they fight.

So thats why we don’t we want to see these animals on the NZ bush?