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Story: Conservation – a history

‘Plant some trees!’

  • Murray Ball’s Footrot Flats
  • Murray Ball’s Footrot Flats

The effect of erosion on farmland is a recurrent theme in Murray Ball’s Footrot Flats series. In this cartoon, Farmer Wal Footrot has cleared his land of forest, and his dog acts as a voice of conscience urging him to replant.

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Simon Nathan, Conservation – a history – Soil conservation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/13923/plant-some-trees (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.