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… the marketing of orchard fruit outside the region. From forest to pasture West and South Otago both had substantial tracts of forest. Sawmilling, rail-track laying and road-making … the small farms proved uneconomic, and the land reverted to forest during the 20th century. …
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Part of story: Otago region
… From forest to pasture Before humans arrived, the Taranaki region was one of the most densely forested areas of New Zealand. Over several hundred years … the near-complete devastation of Taranaki’s ring-plain forests, and of much of the inland hill-country bush. The …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… including any landscape and visual effects’. 1 Fighting for forests Poet Hone Tuwhare expressed anger about the destruction of forests in his 1978 poem ‘Warawara, Pureora, Okarito’: … post-modernly uncool to see mountains over malls, to weigh forests more than French fries, to hear the louder sounds of …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… the Mangawhero River for much of its course. Lismore Forest Forest 16 km north-east of Whanganui. Exotic tree planting – …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… green ferns ( Polystichum vestitum ) . Trees and shrubs Forest trees are found only at lower altitudes on the Snares … Further north and warmer, the Snares Islands are home to a forest predominantly of Olearia lyall i i (a relative of the …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… Further progress was blocked by rugged mountains, dense forests and the Māori stronghold of Te Rohe Pōtae (the King … interior, and accelerating the destruction of the great forests that once covered much of the island. For most New …
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Part of story: Railways
… Zealand’s 26.8 million hectares of land area is in native forests, milling of this has almost ceased. But 1.8 million … sales of its estate in the late 1980s, over 90% of these forests are in private hands. Following a planting boom in …
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Part of story: Economy
… changed the ecology of Taranaki. Large areas of native forest have been cleared and dozens of native plant and … have been eliminated or greatly reduced in numbers. The forests were replaced by pastures of ryegrass and clover for …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Taupo Totara Timber Company built a tramway from its Taupō forests to Putaruru, where it had a mill. Construction of … Yards built several mills to process wood from exotic forests which had been planted nearby in the 1920s. The …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… species were flightless, and would have scurried around in forest and scrub like two-legged mice. Wrens were vulnerable … Stephens Island. It was safe until cats arrived and the forest was removed in the 1890s, and was last seen in 1895. … bird that was able to fly) gradually dwindled in mainland forests. It was last seen at Nelson Lakes in 1968. Rats from …
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Part of story: Extinctions
… in Forty Mile Bush, Wairarapa. He intended to clear the forest and grow vegetables but found the task beyond him. In … Mt Cook, Suter collected the highly diverse fauna of tiny forest snails. In 1890 he published in the Transactions and … community. For some years Suter restricted his studies to forest and freshwater snails in New Zealand and to related …
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… Kahupeka. Following European settlement, low-lying forest was cleared, but Pirongia remained untouched. In 1971 it became a forest park. A farm walkway The Karamū Walkway, which … Pirongia mountain has one of the region’s largest areas of forest, with rimu and tawa on lower slopes, and kāmahi, …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… into farmland. Farms were also established where native forest had been cleared, north and west of Taupō. However, … 1990s, the boom in dairying has led to tracts of plantation forest being converted to farmland. Many overseas tourists …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… but are most common in coastal or freshwater wetlands, forest edges or farmland. Power lines provide perches in the … to or within wetlands. They may have been more common in forests and shrubland in the past. Well camouflaged and very …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… in that it nests under dense vegetation – traditionally in forest – for protection; it is also the least social of all … particularly vulnerable on the mainland where much of the forest has been cleared for farming. Other comparatively …
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Part of story: Penguins
… of the Ruahine and Tararua ranges. Both lose height – and forest cover – near the Manawatū Gorge. To the immediate … front the curved Tasman Sea coast, banked by sand dunes and forest. In the far distance is the island of Kāpiti, …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… their numbers, the kina eat their way through kelp ‘forests’ so effectively that they destroy the kelp beds. … and other predators increases, kina numbers fall and kelp forests are re-established. …
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Part of story: Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans
… humans arrived in New Zealand, these areas were clothed in forests and tall scrub. They have been frequently burnt and … land). In some areas, it is replaced by broad-leaved forest trees after 100 years or so. However, in the driest …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… logging, which was destroying much of the country’s native forest. The National Parks Act Boards were set up in the … were not co-ordinated. In the 1940s groups such as the Forest and Bird Society and Federated Mountain Clubs argued …
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Part of story: National parks
… New Zealand’s steep mountain streams and forested rivers are far too swift and rough for most ducks. … of European settlement. But they lost ground as lowland forest was progressively cleared. Whio were still quite …
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Part of story: Wetland birds