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… What is 'the bush'? In New Zealand, it is the native forest, which once covered most of the land. Dense and dark, …
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… Mile Bush Known to Māori as Tapere-nui-a-Whātonga, this forest stretched for 70 miles from Wairarapa to Hawke’s Bay. … the young immigrant families arrived to an expanse of dense forest. As farms were drawn by ballot, nationalities were … supplejack – a far cry from the open silver birch and fir forests of their homelands. Crude huts were built at what …
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Part of story: Scandinavians
… about 20% of the country’s electricity in the 2010s. Forestry and wood processing In 1905 timber company Ellis … 1960s. The Taupo Totara Timber Company, which logged native forests west of Lake Taupō in the early 20th century, built … Energy and forestry …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… area was also farmed, and later became part of the Kaweka Forest Park. Kaweka Forest Park Department of Conservation park in the Kaweka …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… artist and was known for his paintings of native forests, including King Country scenes. He was close to his …
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Part of story: King Country places
… area system was skewed towards mountains and mountain forests, excluding other types of ecosystem. Few marine, … that are under-represented. These include lowland podocarp forests, coastal forests, estuarine wetlands and dune lands, …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… and expanded after Polynesian and European settlers cleared forests using fire. In dry periods, heathlands are … root stocks. Gumlands Gumlands are areas where kauri forests previously grew, and were named after the valuable …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… species, especially the common wasp, have invaded native forest – kauri forests in the north and beech forests in the south. Effects …
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Part of story: Wasps and bees
… Waitākere Ranges Rugged forested range of hills (reaching 450 m), stretching … – about 120,000 trees. By the 1920s there was little kauri forest left in the Waitākeres. In the 1940s what remained …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… main islands on open sites in coastal and lowland–montane forest and in scrub. It has spreading branches and leathery, … – stinkwood Stinkwood ( C. foetidissima ) is common in the forest understorey and in scrub, from the Coromandel … divaricating shrubs that inhabit the understorey of forests and dominate shrubland throughout New Zealand, and …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… mature in late summer to early autumn, were a staple of forest tribes north of Lake Taupō. The kernels were boiled, … Moveable feast North Island traditions say that when the forests were more plentiful, large flocks of kūkupa (New …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… of chafer beetles can be heard as they fly about at dusk. Forests The forest is a beetle stronghold – the greatest diversity …
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Part of story: Beetles
… modified by weeds introduced by humans. On Raoul, the only forested island, the dominant canopy species are the … are home to large colonies of seabirds which nest in the forests or on the coast. 35 bird species are known, at least …
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Part of story: Kermadec Islands
… Huge, flightless moa once lumbered around New Zealand’s forests – easy meat for Haast’s eagle, the largest bird of …
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… at,’ wrote Samuel Butler in 1863. Later, unspoilt lakes, forests and snowy peaks became central to the notion of …
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… a varnish. Chemists studying the ‘natural pharmacy’ of the forests have found unique compounds – including mānuka’s …
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… Kauri forest, gay men’s lives, marae protocol, kiwi, the women’s …
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… territory. With a harbour rich in fish and shellfish, and forests offering fern grounds, eel fisheries and pigeons, …
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… are widespread on the mainland, especially at the edges of forests, on farmland, and where there are nettles ( Urtica … butterflies have their closest relatives in the cloud forests of New Guinea and in the temperate northern …
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Part of story: Butterflies and moths