by xwthiydx | Mar 11, 2017 | Botanical Details
Kauri Growth Trees normally reach a height of 30m — occasionally 60m — with a normal trunk diameter of three metres, sometimes reaching seven metres. As a young tree (known as a ricker) the kauri has a narrow, conical shape with branches up the length of...
by xwthiydx | Mar 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Everyone! Families, individuals, whanau, friends, visitors from New Zealand or overseas, communities, business and schools. All you need to do is make your donation… we’ll do the rest. Plant kauri every year – for each of your children, to remember a...
by xwthiydx | Mar 11, 2017 | Botanical Details
Botanical Details The Kauri, Agathis australis, is New Zealand’s largest and most famous native tree, on account of its size and age. It is regarded worldwide as a truly noble tree. Ancestors of the kauri first appeared in the Jurassic Period 190-135 million...
by xwthiydx | Mar 11, 2017 | About Kauri 2000
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...
by Kauri 2000 | Mar 11, 2017 | About Kauri
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...
by Kauri 2000 | Mar 11, 2017 | About Kauri
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...
by Kauri 2000 | Mar 11, 2017 | About 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...
by Kauri 2000 | Mar 11, 2017 | About Kauri
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...
by xwthiydx | Mar 11, 2017 | About Kauri 2000
The Kauri 2000 Organisation Kauri 2000 evolved out of a project to mark the start of the new millennium with a goal to plant 2000 kauri. To date the Trust has planted over 54,000 kauri on the Coromandel Peninsula and continues to plant kauri throughout the Coromandel....
by xwthiydx | Mar 11, 2017 | About Kauri 2000
Planting The Kauri 2000 Trust orders seedlings, prepares site management plans and arranges for sites to be cleared and prepared for planting. Seedlings are raised from eco-sourced seed, our supply grown for us by Habitat Enhancement and Landcare Partnership Waihi...
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