This week my reading group read a book about possums. Once we had finished reading the article in our books we had to write lots of reasons why possums are bad for the NZ wildlife. Here are my reasons.
1. Possums eat most of our native plants and birds. This is one of the main reasons are native plants and birds/animals are becoming more and more endangered.
2. Possums can carry a disease called bovine tuberculosis which they caught from infected cows. Cows can recatch it from possums if the sniff or lick them.
3. Possums have a massive effect on wildlife so people try poison and shoot them. But there is a problem. Hunters can accidentally shoot or trap native wildlife and sometimes native wildlife eat the poison.
4. In my opinion we should try get all/most of the possums deported or try to run more over.
5. Possums are destroying our native bush. There are no predators to eat or hunt them so they roam free with no worry.
In conclusion possums are very bad for our native animals and plants. They are very dangerous and if we don't do something about them soon all our wildlife will disappear for good.
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