Te Urewera: New Zealand's 'living' rainforest - BBC
2021年9月29日 · In a world-first law, one of the world's most remote rainforests has been passed back to its Indigenous owners and granted the same legal status as people. Rugged, immense, and intensely remote,...
Westland temperate forests - Wikipedia
The Westland temperate forests, also known as the Westland temperate rainforests, is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion located along the central west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, also known as Te Waipounamu.
Temperate rainforest - Wikipedia
The temperate rainforests of New Zealand occur on the western shore of the South Island and on the North Island. The forests are made up of coniferous podocarps and broadleaf evergreen trees. The podocarps are abundant at lower elevations, while southern beech (Nothofagus) can be found on higher slopes and in the cooler southernmost rainforests.
Westland Temperate Forests - One Earth
This high rainfall ecoregion covers the narrow lower-elevation forests of New Zealand’s South Island central coast. These globally rare temperate rainforests are relatively contiguous from the mountains to the coast, an increasingly rare phenomenon anywhere in the world.
About New Zealand's forests | NZ Government
2022年5月5日 · New Zealand has over 10 million hectares of forests, both native and exotic. Find out the tree species that make up our forests and their location. In Māori mythology, the creator of the first human also created the forests, connecting the two forever.
Pureora Forest Park - Wikipedia
Pureora Forest Park is a 760-square-kilometre (290 sq mi) [1] protected area in the North Island of New Zealand. Within its rich rainforest are an abundance of 1,000-year-old podocarp trees. It is "recognised as one of the finest rain forests in the world". [2]
The Māori tribe protecting New Zealand’s sacred rainforest
2020年6月9日 · Te Urewera is the largest rainforest of New Zealand’s North Island, spanning 2,127 sq km of rugged hill country, vast blue-green lakes and fast-running, north-flowing rivers.
Discover the Catlins: A New Zealand Rainforest Along the ...
2023年4月30日 · Close your eyes and imagine a paradise with impressive waterfalls hidden in a vivid New Zealand rainforest edged by sweeping seas. Add to that endangered penguins, endemic Hector’s dolphins, and native birds, and you have the Catlins.
Temperate Rainforests of New Zealand - Wanderlust Nursery
2023年5月9日 · New Zealand’s temperate rainforests mostly lie in the western half of the islands where the westerly winds provide copious precipitation that often struggles to cross the mountains of the interior. There are different ecosystems within the rainforests of the country; some are mixed broadleaf and others coniferous, although uniquely they are ...
The Cenozoic history of New Zealand temperate rainforests ...
2016年6月7日 · We review the Cenozoic history of major forest elements (c. 30 genera/families) of the temperate rainforests of New Zealand and compare these with South America and southeast Australia.