ENEMIES OF BUSH
DESTRUCTION BY OPOSSUMS. . A correspondent of the Forest and Bird Protection Society has reported to the executive that opossums, deer, pigs and cattle are working havoc in the native bush on the hills around Palmerston North. He states that the opossums are cleaning up the konini and other succulent species, and the other animals are eating up the undergrowth. “All we have now in the bush.” he continues, “is the overhead canopy and young rangioras and karamus a few inches high. The young rangiora is gradually overcoming the fern on the outskirts of the forest.”
Captain Sanderson said that opossums were particularly fond of the kotukutuku, commonly known as the konini (the name of its berry). On Kapiti Island, in the days when opossums were numerous, all those trees perished,except one, to which a dog was chained. Now that the opossums had been nearly exterminated on the native bird sanctuary, the kotukutuku trees were coming back.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1938, Page 7
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