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In the forests of New Zealand, indigenous Maori and Western scientists work through past injustices to save a threatened species together

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This Ancient New Zealand Forest Hides Giant Trees and Natural Night Lights

Waipoua Forest is on New Zealand’s North Island in the Northland and Bay of Islands region, near Dargaville and about 1 hour and 45 minutes south of Whangārei. It holds the largest remaining native ...
The New York Times

How Maori Stepped In to Save a Towering Tree Crucial to Their Identity

Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease. Tourists visiting Tāne Mahuta, the largest known kauri tree, in ...
The Conversation

The mysterious existence of a leafless kauri stump, kept alive by its forest neighbours

Sebastian Leuzinger receives funding from The Royal Society. Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...