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… agriculture was transformed by servicing whaling ships. Forests were cleared to make way for cultivation of …
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Part of story: Pacific Islands and New Zealand
… landscape by altering soils and wetlands, and by reducing forest areas. …
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Part of story: Human effects on the environment
… By 1905 most of the gold and gum had been taken, and the forests felled. Auckland’s comparative isolation ended with …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… lobes. Large foliose lichens are a feature of New Zealand’s forests, and are commonly found clothing tree trunks. …
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Part of story: Lichens
… also infected. Lake Manapōuri Its banks dense with beech forest, its waters scattered with islands and its horizon …
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Part of story: Southland places
… The single largest settlement was the Central North Island Forests iwi collective, valued at $161 million. The flow-on …
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Part of story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment
… also feeds on native trees. Epidemics occurred in pine forests in Canterbury in the 1950s and 1960s, and in Douglas …
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Part of story: Insect pests of crops, pasture and forestry
… topsoils and low subsoil fertility. Although much of the forest has been removed, its influence on soil formation was … productivity, many of the soils are better suited to forestry than to agriculture. …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Extending from high in the mountains down towards lowland forest, the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers are both reasonably …
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Part of story: West Coast places
… the First World War he served as an officer in the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). He was …
Type: Biography
… on leaving the pa. The defenders, after retiring into the forest, rallied with reinforcements, and Hunter had to fight …
Type: Biography
… or less ended by 1880, after fires destroyed the remaining forests at Waimate and Geraldine. Lime-burning, for …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… and undisturbed possession of their lands and estates, forests, fisheries, and other properties’. The Crown sought …
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Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… not more than 3% of ‘waste’ (unused) land of provinces as ‘forest’; this would be security for the £3 million loan and …
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Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… of Conservation. This is an area of varied lowland forest north-east of Karamea. Existing tracks have been upgraded, and abandoned forestry roads have been converted into a mountain-bike …
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Part of story: West Coast places
… chants and incantations for the realms of the sea and the forest. Later, Māui sought knowledge from his kuia …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… Island, and there peeped at the log cabin cabaret set in forest loveliness where the light-hearted dance the happy …
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Part of story: Otago places
… was traditionally known as Te Nehe-nehe-nui (the great forest). The western coastline forms the boundary from south …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… ‘Bush’ names in Southland are a reminder of long-gone forest. They include Grove Bush, Mabel Bush, Gummies Bush, …
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Part of story: Place names
… Gardening methods Before planting, Māori cleared and burned forest, and prepared the ground. They spread ash over the …
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Part of story: Gardens