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… After returning to Romania he worked in agriculture and forestry. In the late 1930s, however, with the threat of war … Science, Grassland Association and Institute of Foresters. Jacks had been a boy scout in Romania and he was … on his own land and until 1986 as a consultant to Fletcher Forests on the nutrition, health and soil management of …
Type: Biography
… account for 11%. On the upside, New Zealand's abundant forests absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, … volume of timber harvested from New Zealand’s plantation forests is taken into account. The Paris Agreement The Paris …
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Part of story: Climate change
… the natural environment of New Zealand in only 750 years. Forest-burning and conversion of land to agriculture has removed over two-thirds of the native forest, causing major ecological changes and accelerating …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Geology – overview
… research and conservation efforts focused on native forests, rather than tussock grasslands. Detailed ecological … soil. These produced much less water, as did exotic pine forest. Snow tussock areas also have very low water losses …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Grasslands
… Ferns and lycophytes abound in New Zealand’s rainforests. In the humid interior they carpet forest floors, and climb and perch on tree trunks and … sides of streams and dominate in damp gullies. Outside the forest, ferns are also conspicuous. Many roadside banks and …
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Part of story: Ferns and lycophytes
… of pines began in 1921, and the island is covered in exotic forests. Its 11-km beach is popular in summer. Moutere Hills … and many orchards were ripped up and planted out in pine forests. The Woollaston Estates vineyard at Mahana was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nelson places
… North Island’s largest wilderness area is in Te Urewera. Forested ridges of the greywacke Huiarau and Ikawhenua … young, and was never highly compacted. Stripped of forest and turned into pasture by settlers, these hill …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Landscapes – overview
… and things have mauri. People placed physical objects in forests as talismans. These embodied the mauri, and were … a mauri protects the hau of a person, or of a locality. A forest with a mauri talisman was considered to have greater …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… found throughout mainland New Zealand, except in densely forested or mountainous country. They have spread to the … region. Habitat and feeding Mynas are not found in dense forest, but are common in farmland, urban gardens and on …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… Some genealogies envisioned creation as the growth of a forest beginning from Te Pū (the tap root). Others conceived … Tangaroa was god of the sea, Tāne-mahuta was god of the forest, Tūmatauenga was god of war and humankind, Rongo was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… of the North Island’s largest areas of unmodified lowland forest, much of it part of Whanganui National Park. The … personhood. Bridge to somewhere, then nowhere Surrounded by forest, the 38-metre-high ‘bridge to nowhere’ is a remnant …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… and its surrounds deteriorated because of the clearance of forest and wetland vegetation, and waste from farming …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Muaūpoko
… half-brother of Toroa, the captain. He explored the Urewera forest after the Mataatua landed at Whakatāne in the Bay of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… other settlers to build roads and railways in the heavily forested northern Wairarapa (Forty Mile Bush). In exchange … (Eketāhuna). Much of this land was swampy and densely forested, and clearing the bush and sowing pasture was … again’. The Norwegians and Swedes were skilled at clearing forests, but the Danes were not. ‘Some could be seen working …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wairarapa region
… New Zealand was a land of birds . Night and day the forests were alive with rustlings, calls, booms, whistles … a Tānemahuta’ – the hidden bird of Tāne, god of the forest. In some areas kiwi still whistle their high-pitched …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… sheepfarming from their uncle, George Dennistoun, at Peel Forest station. In September 1882, for £9,750, they took … of European settlement. He traces the evidence of primeval forest cover, outlining the shapes of ancient tree-trunks …
Type: Biography
… in early adulthood he worked on the tribe’s farms and forests. On 27 January 1941, at Tokaanu, Hepi (then a truck … tribal economic base through the development of farms and forests. In 1956 Te Heuheu became chairman of the Tūwharetoa …
Type: Biography
… grandeur of these portions of the universe’ in a mountain forest would find New Zealand especially appealing, because … was strong and rapid; a little sparkling beach, and a vast forest rising up from its narrow border, extending over …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… – Arthur’s Pass, Lewis Pass and the Haast Pass. Beech forest once covered much of the Southern Alps. Large tracts … the base of mountain valleys. On the western side, lushly forested mountains rise abruptly from the coastal plains. …
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Part of story: Landscapes – overview
… Extensive mountains, forest cover and lowland wetlands made Hauraki generally … a mill at Tūrua on the Waihou River. It was at the forest’s edge and had a deep anchorage for ocean-going …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region