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… in soil, or nests in natural cavities. Others nest in forest or scrub among tree roots and litter, while open …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Penguins
… Pūwhenua, it begged the fairy-like creatures of the forest to drag it into the ocean. As they neared the water’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… The first improved radiata pines were planted in forests in 1970. Improvement programmes have continued, with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Radiata pine
… bans the harvesting of resources. For example, a lake or a forest might be temporarily off-limits so the fish, birds or …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… ranges from alpine herbs to tussock and flax, with beech forest in the mountains and low-growing shrubs in the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: National parks
… area (Dannevirke to Pūkaha Mt Bruce), reaching a great forest which he named Te Taperenui-o-Whātonga. Tara and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… was left of the township in the early 2000s. Pureora Forest Park Protected forest park of 78,000 hectares, administered by the …
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Part of story: King Country places
… nearly 18,000 hectares, with estuarine areas, swamps, forest, tussock land and sand dunes in blocks of land … and dolphin tours. The Curio Bay Jurassic-age fossil forest is nearby, as is Niagara, jokingly named for its …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Southland places
… In his last years he was deputy president of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and sat on its national … In the 1940s he had argued to retain a kauri cut at Waipoua Forest, and in the 1970s for sustainable podocarp logging in …
Type: Biography
… This collective redress includes 21,000 hectares of Crown forest land on the Aupouri peninsula, creation of Te Oneroa … for joint governance and management of the Warawara Forest Park public conservation lands. Ngāti Kuri’s historic …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… one on the Poor Knights Islands. They are common in many forested areas but absent from others, including Northland. … fruit are seasonal, so the birds need other foods. In beech forest, honeydew – a sugary liquid excreted by scale insects …
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Part of story: Small forest birds
… native timber scarce, there was an early interest in exotic forestry. Exotic trees were also planted for shade and shelter on the exposed plains. Government afforestation began in 1902–3 at Hanmer, and continued after the First World War at Balmoral and Eyrewell. Exotic forestry proved marginal because of frost and the fire risk …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Inglewood was founded in 1875, in a clearing in dense forest. Settlers under Julius Vogel’s assisted immigration … (village) of Tariki – one of the few known kāinga in the forested area east of the mountain. …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… sparked expeditions into the Kaimanawa Range. Until the forest to its west was cleared and the main trunk railway … In 1972 the area between the Taruarau River and Kaweka Forest Park became Timahanga Station. Kurīpāpango Locality …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… plantings of exotic timber trees by the New Zealand Forest Service in the mid-20th century. The Forest Service base is now a recreational camp and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki places
… with the New Zealand government, to exploit the Kaingaroa forest. Other large forestry companies, such as New Zealand Forest Products, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Large companies
… line. The Wairere Stream descends through the surrounding forest, with two drops of 91 and 60 m. A steep track with … the top of the falls. The Wairere track – which ran through forested ranges between Te Puna in the Bay of Plenty and the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… in Tongariro National Park, Kaweka, Kaimanawa and Ruahine forest parks, and Whanganui National Park. Canoeing is … the less active, the homestead and 100 hectares of native forest at Bushy Park are a drawcard. Development of skiing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… to New Zealand by the government in 1872 to fell the forest that covered much of southern Hawke’s Bay and then … products from the Norsewood factory. Eastern Ruahine Forest Park A Department of Conservation park on the east …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… tussock shoots in summer. In winter they retreat to nearby forest, where they eat fern rhizomes. People assumed this … they mostly occupied the edges of dense shrublands and dry forests around lowland swamps and rivers, from Canterbury to …
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Part of story: Large forest birds