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… Depending on the precise measure, exports from farm , forests , fisheries and mines followed by secondary sector … was down to 10%. Primary sector exports in 2004 included: forest products such as sawn and rough wood , pulp and paper …
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Part of story: Economy
… huge appetite for leaves and fruit curbed regrowth of the forest. Eventually, between 1980 and 1986, the entire possum … for farming, they now have no animal pests, and native forest has been re-established – over 250,000 native trees …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… known in the Chatham Islands as kopi, and other broadleaf forests dominated by the tree daisy Olearia traversiorum , … akeake Dodonaea viscosa , despite the identical Māori name. Forests in more sheltered or wetter settings were home to …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… and Development, the Department of Lands and Survey and the Forest Service, providing landscape assessment and design … of Works, Department of Lands and Survey and New Zealand Forest Service, landscape architects undertook large …
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Part of story: Landscape architecture
… longest tramping tracks) follows the coast, mainly through forest. A side track reaches to the island’s highest point, … Orange-brown bluffs and crags protrude from the coastal forest. Wind-formed dune lands, high sand passes and stone …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… open space to the next available cover. Weka live mainly at forest margins, and make forays onto farmland and gardens, … bush hens or woodhens. Weka are easily tamed with food, and forest campers learn not to leave food or shiny objects …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… primarily responsible for the re-establishment of the State Forest Service – its predecessor had been abolished in the 1880s – and was president of the New Zealand Forestry League between 1916 and 1925. He was also a strong … Cawthron Institute and advocated the replanting of native forests. Wilson was knighted in 1915 and spent his last …
Type: Biography
… now found over most of the country except the most densely forested regions, such as Fiordland, or the most open …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… They are common in most habitats, except for intact native forest. Feeding Song thrushes specialise in eating snails, …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… Conservation Authority), Lands and Survey Department and NZ Forest Service led to many redundancies. Part of the …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… endemic ferns and lycophytes live in the south, in cool rainforest. By contrast, those species shared with Australia and … native ferns, mosses and liverworts on stream banks in damp forest, and regenerates easily from fragments common …
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Part of story: Ferns and lycophytes
… erosion and reverting to bush. In Waimarino, after the forests were cleared, fewer trees meant less sawmilling. …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… rimu and mataī timber from its own central North Island forests. The factory eventually employed more than 60 …
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Part of story: Railways
… cargo on planes and ships, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry established a national invasive ant surveillance … with open canopy, but does not penetrate far into native forest. Red alert An invasive ant known as the red imported …
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Part of story: Ants
… promotional material referred to a future in which ‘the forests and fertile plains of New Zealand will resound with …
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Part of story: Iron and steel
… Zealand. Many favour damp, shady sites, and thrive on the forest floor and around the base of trees. Others flourish …
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Part of story: Mosses
… flood plains, used for dairying and cropping. In the east, forestry and sheep and beef farming occupy the highly … A large part of this area has been planted in exotic forest. On the more recent sands, nitrogen and phosphorus …
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Part of story: Soils and regional land use
… The Malcolms went to live there in 1858. The beauty of forest and beach made an instant appeal to Emilie's artistic …
Type: Biography
… represented elemental forces – the wind, the sea and the forests – which in turn gave birth to the multitude of life …
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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… In the North Island, settlers burned native forests to make farmland for sheep and cattle. …
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Part of story: Fire and agriculture