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Forestry in New Zealand has a history starting with European settlement in the 19th century and is now an industry worth seven percent [citation needed] of annual revenue. Much of the original native forest cover was burnt off and logged, however forests have been extensively planted, predominantly with fast-growing cultivars of the Monterey Pine.
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 ).
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This is a list of ecoregions of New Zealand as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. Kermadec Islands subtropical moist forests; Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. Chatham Islands temperate forests; Fiordland temperate forests; Nelson Coast temperate forests; North Island temperate forests
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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 ...
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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]