What I Learned Today - eco-friendly fur?

3rd April 2008

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Seems like an oxymoron, but some retailers claim the fur from the brushtail possum, a marsupial native to Australia, provides “all of the luxury, none of the guilt.” Why eco-friendly? Because the 70 million possums are chewing up endangered native flora and chomping on kiwi eggs to devastating effect, adding to “the near extinction of a number of our endemic birds, mistletoes, rata and so forth.”