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… Habitat Small lakes, slow streams or tidal waterways in forest are grey ducks’ preferred habitat. They have not …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… needed tree stumps removed following burning of its dense forest cover. The Chinese grew crops for three years then …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries
… introduced game animals to populate what they saw as empty forests. Between the 1850s and the early 1900s they brought …
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Part of story: Hunting
… and industrial Britain – a clean slate. Settlers saw the forests as being empty of game animals, the rivers devoid of …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… me.’ 1 Tramping and outdoor recreation Haurangi and Tararua forest parks are a popular destination for trampers …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… Tainui descendants were Te Kawerau-a-Maki, who lived under forest cover in the Waitākeres and controlled land as far …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… inhabitants, moa were a major source of food, along with forest birds, and the eels and flounder that were abundant …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… which can be traced to Tānemahuta, the ancestral god of the forests and all things living in it. Tānemahuta mated with …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… Gorge, and drill and blast enormous boulders. Swamps, forests, and rough ground added to the obstacles. They never …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… cleared to create pasture and, in south Waikato, exotic forests. Unchanged are the sentinel mountains – Taupiri, …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… New Zealand’s largest remaining tracts of conifer–broadleaf forest. A land of rivers Numerous streams and rivers dissect …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… country and its wealth of resources – tall-timbered rain forests, abundant bird life, flax swamps and rivers full of …
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Part of story: Estuaries
… a biography, which was published in 1948. Petersen’s book Forest homes (1956), largely based on the stories he heard …
Type: Biography
… In some areas of the South Island, reef sponges, kelp forests, weed beds and fish nursery grounds have been lost …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… stagnated. It boomed in the late 1870s and early 1880s as forests were felled, gold was mined at Thames, and business …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… panoramic views of mountains, rivers, caves, thermal areas, forest and harbours. People seemed incidental, small, …
Type: Biography
… a group of Ngāi Tahu people as they emerged from the dense forest of Pahia Bush Hill and saw the bay for the first …
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Part of story: Southland places
… how takahē should be protected. The official view of the Forest and Bird Society was that the birds should be left in …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… home – a favourable food supply was released when lowland forests and scrublands were converted to pasture. By 1993 …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… in 1997. The aim was to restore Kaipātiki Stream and the forest margins by ridding them of plant and animal pests. In …
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Part of story: Auckland places