There’s hope for Aotearoa’s largest known living kauri tree, Tāne Mahuta, in Northland’s Waipoua Forest. DOC’s Kauri Coast operations manager Stephen Soole says proactive and sustainable measures are essential to protect Tāne Mahuta and the other rākau rangatira (chiefly trees) of Waipoua from the irreversible spread of kauri dieback disease, a soil-borne pathogen that attacks […]
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