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The ecoregion was home to several species of flightless moa, Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei), the flightless New Zealand swan (Cygnus sumnerensis) and the North Island goose (Cnemiornis gracilis). The Māori arrived around 1280, and are the first known humans to inhabit New Zealand. The early settlers hunted many of the large birds, including ...
Milling of New Zealand's extensive native forests was one of the earliest industries in the European settlement of the country. The long, straight hardwood from the kauri was ideal for ship masts and spars. As the new colony was established, timber was the most common building material, and vast areas of native forest were cleared.
Historically, Kaihu Forest was home to Kauri trees. [2] These ancient trees are an integral part of New Zealand’s natural heritage and are known for their immense size and longevity. [ 3 ] Today, Kauris exist only in small groups, and the forest is dominated by other species.
The largest sections of podocarp forest in Westland New Zealand are found around 43° latitude, where they grow from the western coastal region along the Tasman Sea up to the Southern Alps. Rimu-kamahi forest is common in this area, along with mountain totara (Podocarpus laetus) and southern rata (Metrosideros umbellata). [8]
The Southland temperate forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion on New Zealand's South Island. The natural vegetation was mostly forest, but over the centuries human activities, including grazing and fires, replaced much of the original forest with grassland and agriculture. [2] [3] [4]
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Kaingaroa Forest covers 2,900 square kilometres (1,100 sq mi) of the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand, and is the largest forest plantation in New Zealand, and the second largest in the Southern Hemisphere (after the 6,000 square kilometres (2,300 sq mi) Sabie/Graskop plantation in South Africa). [1]
The park was first created in 1881 as a forest reserve and went on to become New Zealand’s second national park, preceded by Tongariro National Park, in 1900. [2] [3] The forest reserve was created within a 6-mile (9.6-kilometre) radius around the cone of the dormant Mount Taranaki volcano. Areas encompassing the older volcanic remnants of ...