What have we achieved ?

What have we achieved ?

What have we achieved ?  Since the trust was formed in 1999,  Kauri 2000 has planted over 55,000 kauri seedlings on 36 sites around the Coromandel peninsula. Some of our more notable locations include the following. Chelmsford on the Kopu-Hikui Road, including our...
An end to logging

An end to logging

An end to logging It’s easy to forget that logging of kauri forests continued until comparatively recently. Government policy changed over the years, not only because of the dwindling resource but also in the face of mounting public pressure to save the...
The Coromandel Story

The Coromandel Story

The Coromandel Story A lasting reminder of the once thriving kauri industry on the Peninsula are the kauri dams of the Coromandel. Estimates of the number of dams constructed in the Kaueranga Valley near Thames alone range from around 60 to over 100, built across most...
Maori and the Kauri

Maori and the Kauri

Maori and the Kauri Professor John Salmon says that to the ancient Maori, kauri ranked second only to the totara in importance. Some of the greatest northern war canoes were constructed out of single massive kauri trunks, felled in the forest after elaborate...
Mass Felling

Mass Felling

Mass Felling Logs near Coroglen Kauri logs piled up near Coroglen after a log drive down the Waiwawa River. Ref. No. 1/2-022204; G Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any...