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… Zealand Native Bird Protection Society (which became the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand), he was … the society's magazine and represented it on the Waipoua Forest Sanctuary Advisory Society. He was instrumental in …
Type: Biography
… Zealand bailout. Canadian-born McArthur had formed Redwood Forests in 1925, funding the company by the sale of … bonds’ – each representing an acre (0.4 hectares) of exotic forest which the company promised to plant. From 1929 …
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Part of story: Business failures and corporate fraud
… In ventures that combined Māori and European, the kauri forest was exploited in a thriving timber trade. There was … of multiply-owned Māori land and improved roading and forestry work brought economic advances. The French threat … is at the base of the Maungataniwha Range. The mountainous forested area contains giant kauri trees. The settlement of …
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Part of story: Northland places
… a 16-km walk beside the Clinton River, through native beech forest to Pompolona Lodge or Mintaro Hut. The next day, a … National Park in the 1960s. Walking tracks through beech forest follow the river to the sea at Martins Bay. A side …
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Part of story: Southland places
… earth. Tāwhirimātea became god of the wind, Tāne god of the forest, Tangaroa god of the sea, Rongo god of cultivated … things were linked through whakapapa. Tāne, the god of the forest, shaped the first woman, Hineahuone, from soil and …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… of New Zealand, the West Coast has a great extent of native forest. With spectacular scenery, including glaciers that … male identity, based on industries such as mining and forestry. Many of the tourist attractions on the West Coast … against government decisions about the use of native forests and other natural resources in their region. As a …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… metres lower. Inhibited by the cool, harsh, windy climate, forests grew only in the northern half of the present North … New Zealand’s two main islands some 12,000 years ago. The forests began to recolonise the grasslands, soon covering …
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Part of story: Climate change
… as the mainland would have prior to human settlement, with forest growing down to the sea. As botanist Leonard Cockayne … More than half the land is covered by podocarp and hardwood forests, with rimu, miro, kāmahi and southern rātā …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… World War when returned servicemen, settling on blocks of forest-covered hill country, cleared the land of trees. … withdrawn from agriculture, either by using them for exotic forestry or by allowing them to revert to native forest. By the 1980s it was realised that erosion in the …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… Harbour. The land is extremely rough, broken, mountainous forest country. The rivers are fast flowing, ill suited to … Tūhoe evolved a distinctive economy based on their forest environment. The mountains For Tūhoe, mountains are …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… throughout New Zealand. National parks and reserves The forestry debates in the later part of the 20th century ultimately led to large areas of lowland forest being made reserves. In the 2010s the Department of …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… are more than 100 wētā species in varied settings, from forests to caves, and even under rocks on Central Otago … earthworms, flatworms and wētā. Dull colours Although the forest birds had no mammalian predators, giant eagles and …
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Part of story: Native plants and animals – overview
… from both the Longwood Range in the east and the Rowallan Forest to the west. Two sawmills still operate, but sheep, … Mountains (highest point 1,634 m), which are still mostly forested. …
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Part of story: Southland places
… ranges from cushion plants and turf to rushlands and forests. It is not always easy to classify a wetland – … bogs. Māori use The vast mosaics of lowland swamps and wet forests were important for early Māori. These places …
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Part of story: Wetlands
… dried edible seaweed and shark oil to those who lived in forests, who reciprocated with preserved birds, rats, hīnau …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… which was thought to protect the health and vitality of a forest or tree. Lizards – often the moko kākāriki ( …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… John Bumby. The bee became widespread, even in native forest and shrubland. From 1885, four species of European …
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Part of story: Insects – overview
… the best way to find them is to sift leaf litter from the forest floor on to a dish, and then wait for them to move. …
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Part of story: Spiders and other arachnids
… (DOC) manages about 8 million hectares of native forests, tussocklands, alpine areas, wetlands, dunelands, …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… work completely in 1958 when she joined the New Zealand Forest Service as a biologist, on the recommendation of Lucy … years. Davidson joined the Animal Research Section of the Forest Research Institute, the Forest Service’s scientific …
Type: Biography