
%0 Journal Article
%A Baillie, Heidi 
%T Magic bullet misses possum target
%J Pacific Conservation Biology
%D 2007/03/10
%V 13
%N 1
%P 1-2
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PC070001
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PC070001 
%X For New Zealand forests, possums are the Black Death. Sadly, a plague of furry gluttons was unleashed on the New Zealand environment in the mistaken view that they would sustain a fur industry and therefore the economy. As with so many 19th century introductions, the few protesting voices were ignored in what was fatefully thought to be the greater interest. A bright idea went catastrophically wrong, crushing a unique fauna and flora through sheer weight of numbers. 
