More links and websites
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Active Sand Dunes in NZ
Landcare Research information on NZ sand dunes including how they are formed and their endangered status.
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Dune Restoration Trust
The Dune Restoration Trust is focussed on community involvement in the restoration of the coastal ecology in New Zealand.
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Inventory of New Zealand's Active Dunelands
A paper written by Mike Hilton, Ursula Macauley and Ralph Henderson investigating active dunes in NZ, published by DOC.
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Pikao (or pingao) the golden sand sedge
The Department of Conservation’s web page on pīngao.
More suggestions and sources
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Bergin, D. O. Rehabilitation of coastal foredunes in New Zealand using indigenous sand-binding species. Science for Conservation 122. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 1999.
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Cockayne, Leonard. ‘Report on the dune areas of New Zealand plants, their geology, botany, and reclamation.’ Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives 1911, C-13.
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Hilton, Mike, and others. Inventory of New Zealand’s active dunelands. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 2000.
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McKelvey, P. J. Sand forests: a historical perspective of the stabilisation and afforestation of coastal sands in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1999.
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Sale, E. V. Forest on sand: the story of Aupouri State Forest. Wellington: New Zealand Forest Service, 1985.
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Seitzer, Stefan, and Arno Gasteiger. ‘Dunes: the waterless sea.’ New Zealand Geographic 47 (Jul–Sep 2000):18-41.
