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… When first introduced from its native California, radiata pine may have …
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… Zealand’s identity. The first New Zealand coat of arms was introduced in 1911, but many departments continued to use …
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… the government. After proportional representation was introduced in 1996 more minor parties entered Parliament, …
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… The main threat to their survival is the proliferation of introduced weeds. The most distinctive features of natural … forest and tracts of bracken, mānuka and kānuka. Settlers introduced an extraordinary range of plants for food, … birds like godwits, wrybills and oystercatchers. Humans introduced new plants and animals, some of which devastated …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… per year. Big and small islands Although the impact of introduced diseases was severe, Māori were dispersed over a … killed an estimated 20% of their population. Impact of introduced diseases Introduced diseases were the major …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… wasps, stinging wasps, hunting wasps and bees. Conspicuous introduced species More easily seen are the introduced German and common wasps, paper wasps, honeybees …
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Part of story: Wasps and bees
… the 1970s, when non-language classical studies papers were introduced. French and German were the first modern …
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… Since European sports were introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century Māori have …
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… more organised in the 20th when shearing machines were introduced. A Wellington provincial shearing championship … no longer come to the show. 1 Jumping competitions had been introduced from the 1890s, as grandstands and show-rings … Parade At the end of the 19th century the Grand Parade was introduced. The prize-winning horses and cattle (but not …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… earthworm activity. Similarly, in the Otago upland soils, introduced Aporrectodea caliginosa earthworms improved … surprising that they thrive in compost heaps – especially introduced species such as Eisenia fetida and E. andrei . …
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Part of story: Earthworms
… a much lesser degree. Freshwater fishing for recreation was introduced by settlers from Britain, who imported the … ( Salmo trutta ) from England, Scotland, Germany and Italy, introduced from the late 1860s, were the most successful of …
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Part of story: Freshwater fishing
… Lake Taupō had all those except for toitoi, which were introduced around the 1930s along with smelt. Brown trout and rainbow trout Brown trout were introduced into Lake Taupō in 1887 and Lake Rotorua in 1888. … but were very difficult to catch. Rainbow trout were introduced to both lakes in 1898. By 1903 they were …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… bees do not occur except where they have been deliberately introduced, but there are 28 species of solitary native bees. These are smaller than introduced bees and have short tongues, which limits the … native fauna, but a few exotic types have been accidentally introduced. Two species of aggressive black and yellow wasps …
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Part of story: Insects – overview
… sea spiders, sea stars, sea urchins, sea squirts and fish. Introduced and invasive species Introduced species are living organisms that are brought by … native, and where they survive and reproduce themselves. Introduced species that become pests in the new environment …
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Part of story: Marine invaders
… area for birds. The common bush birds and most of the introduced species can be found here. A bird bath or a bird … birds easily in these situations. Town birds include the introduced house sparrow, thrush, blackbird and various … in the 19th century, but remained on offshore islands. The introduced little owl frequents the drier eastern South …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… environmental impact. New crop plants such as potatoes were introduced from the time of James Cook’s voyages in the late … West Coast, were clearfelled for timber and replanted with introduced pine ( Pinus radiata ). Draining wetlands The …
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Part of story: Human effects on the environment
… variety of fruits with them, two-thirds of which had been introduced to Europe from other parts of the world. Commonly … significant introductions took place. The kiwifruit was introduced from China in 1904, followed by the feijoa from … Central America (via California) in 1919. Other directly introduced fruits include the nashi pear and mandarin. …
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Part of story: Food
… wrists and arms. From the late 1880s shearing machines were introduced, which made the job a little easier and allowed … to stay for a fortnight—a month at the most!’ 1 Rabbiters Introduced rabbits became a scourge in the 1870s. They …
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Part of story: Rural workers
… Fire blight Because apples and pears were introduced to New Zealand both as graftwood and as trees, many pests and diseases were introduced at the same time. The most serious bacterial disease, fire blight ( Erwinia amylovera ), was introduced in graftwood from the US after the First World …
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Part of story: Apples and pears
… as the hokioi – reputedly after the sound of its call. Introduced predators Many bird species became extinct after … birds and invertebrates. By the 19th century Europeans had introduced other rat species , ferrets, weasels, stoats, …
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Part of story: Natural environment