Regenerating NZ’s native bush

Giving the natural environment a helping hand will pay dividends in the long run.

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12th May, 2012

Our relationship with the landscape is complex. Along with the need to convert land into the farms that form the foundation of our economy is a pride in the uniqueness of our natural environment. Awareness of this dichotomy keeps growing, and over the past few decades more and more farmers and landowners have been revegetating land that had once been cleared indiscriminately. Considering the time needed for a forest to mature, we are just at the beginning of these exciting reparations. There is a lot to learn from the methodology of various projects that lead the way in this compromise between ...

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