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… and coastal salt-water wetlands, also frequenting damp forest or grassland. They eat invertebrates, seeds, fruit, …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… directly with the immediacy of radio and TV news. The forest of small classified ads traditionally provided the …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… climates and originally had generally low but dense coastal forest and scrub cover. They share many of these features …
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Part of story: Ecoregions
… A few other large brown seaweeds form extensive underwater forests that support an extraordinary diversity of animals …
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Part of story: Coastal shoreline
… on the coast, in native bush and, in recent times, in pine forests. In the central North Island, pikopiko can be …
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Part of story: Māori foods – kai Māori
… and blessed with a long beautiful coastline. The native forests were largely cleared in the early days of farming, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… purposes. For example, extracts of the bark of the tall forest tree pukatea ( Laurelia novae-zelandiae ) were used …
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Part of story: Plant extracts
… cubic metres. Erosion In the early days of settlement, when forests were being converted to pasture, some hill country …
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Part of story: Water quality
… the country for use on farms. As nutrients from the ash of forests burnt during land clearance ran out, crops and …
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Part of story: Fertiliser industry
… again. He visited Kapiti Island in 1906, the Waipoua kauri forest in North Auckland in 1907, and Tongariro National … work was the two-part Monograph on the New Zealand beech forests (1926, 1928). He also published The cultivation of …
Type: Biography
… project was the composition of a didactic verse drama, The forest , justifying his views on poetry, Hellenism, and … did, however, arrange for the publication of his play The forest , and the visit gave rise to a long polemic poem, …
Type: Biography
… Adam Hamilton was born at Forest Hill, Southland, on 20 August 1880, the son of … farmer, and his wife, Mary McIlwrick. He attended school at Forest Hill and Lochiel, leaving from standard six to work …
Type: Biography
… European soldiers. Colonial troops later ventured into the forest to attack Tītokowaru at his pā, Te Ngutu-o-te-manu, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… from the foot of a high mountain to its summit. Dark green forest gives way to tawny grassland, above which is …
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Part of story: Alpine plants
… Napenape Remnant of lowland coastal forest about 5 km south of the Hurunui River mouth, …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… Society of New Zealand (Birds New Zealand) and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand provide …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… Island and north of Taupō. They are found mainly in open forest, urban parks, farmland, gardens and orchards. Crimson …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… and acquired a farm property. The land was low-lying and forested and the farm was established only after much …
Type: Biography
… and undisturbed possession of their lands and estates, forests, fisheries, and other properties’ were not upheld by …
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Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… they have decreased since, as a result of bounty schemes, forest clearance and hunting. Since the late 1950s, Captain …
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Part of story: Pigs and the pork industry