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Hinewai Reserve

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Akaroa, Canterbury

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Akaroa, Canterbury
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The primary aim is to foster the natural regeneration of native vegetation and wildlife. We operate under a management strategy of minimal interference — that is, we allow natural succession to run its course towards a vegetation cover (nearly all forest) similar to that prevailing before the forest clearance by human settlers, first partly by Polynesian settlers from about 700 years ago, second and nearly completely by European settlers from around 1850 onwards. We remove alien elements that seriously impede the re-establishment of native flora and fauna — that is a few highly invasive and competitive exotic trees and vines and a few seriously deleterious animals, provided that their removal is practical. Otherwise, we leave things alone. For example, exotic gorse is a hated weed of pastoral farming but is tolerated on Hinewai because it serves as a highly effective temporary nurse canopy for native regeneration.

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Posted 02/28/2021 by Hinewai Reserve
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest

The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native... Read More