Eastwoodhill is the name of the National Arboretum of New Zealand, and is located near the city of Gisborne in the North Island. It acts as an arboreal ark, or a safe haven, for threatened and endangered trees not only…
New conservation park for Great Barrier Island
New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island, located in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, is set for a new conservation park. Just over 12000 hectares of land will be transferred into the new Aotea Conservation Park. Whilst not being a case of…
Project Crimson – community planting day for Motu trials cycleway
Project Crimson, focussed on renewing Pohutukawa and Rata tree stocks in New Zealand, is helping new plantings on a stretch of the Motu Dunes Cycle Trail. This community planting day is planned for the 8th June 2014. The project will…
Kauri 2000 Project, Coromandel, New Zealand
KAURI 2000 is a long term project to add significant numbers of kauri trees on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. The kauri being New Zealand’s largest and most famous native tree. Started as a new millennium project (hence the…