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Hutiwai: the forest you helped save takes its first steps toward permanent protection

Some of you will remember Hutiwai — 434 hectares of native forest and wetland in the hills of North Taranaki, above the Tongaporutu coast, that we set out to buy...
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A forest of their own: Makahu School plants for the future at Patui

At the edge of a Taranaki wetland, sixteen children are growing a forest they will know for the rest of their lives. Makahu School is a small rural primary school...
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Six years, 1,200 trees: a Southland club completes its planting project at Ōreti

On a cold Sunday in June, a small group of Southland trampers put the final plants of a six-year project into the ground — and stood back to look at...
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A wetland the whole region is rallying around

Somewhere in the reeds at Opoutama, a bird you will almost never see is booming into the dusk. The matuku — the Australasian bittern, matuku-hūrepo — is one of the...
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A living memorial: how Elizabeth Oliver honoured her brother Jack

Some gifts arrive as a sum of money. This one arrived as a wish: that somewhere in a New Zealand reserve, a grove of pūriri would grow, and keep growing,...
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Welcoming Ben Haddrell to the NFRT Team

We're delighted to welcome Ben Haddrell as the Trust's new part-time Reserve Manager for our Waikato and Bay of Plenty reserves. Ben brings a unique combination of practical conservation experience,...

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