New Zealanders really love nature and the outdoor. Hiking and outdoor sports are very big here, and people are very aware about nature conservation. Well, native nature, anyway. You see, as New Zealand was disconnected from the rest of the lands very early, evolution-wise, it had no native mammals or reptiles to speak off. Mostly insects and birds, some of them unique to New Zealand. Also the plant life has some unique specimens. All This had changed when the Europeans arrived, of course, and introduced their own flora and fauna, some deliberately, mainly farm animals (a.k.a. sheep) and game, and some not so much, like rats and the like. Now, I've noticed a curious phenomena about introduced western organisms. Plants, animals or people, they always seem to dominate over the natives ones. Maybe this is only
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