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Story: Trees in the rural landscape

Covenanted land

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Covenanted land

This 52-hectare regenerating kānuka–kōwhai forest alongside the Mangaone River, in Hawke’s Bay, is now under a protective covenant with the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust. Previously, it had been unfenced and stock could graze young seedlings and saplings.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Trees in the rural landscape – Native trees on farms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19722/covenanted-land (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.