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NZ needs to plant more trees to combat climate change – but what kind and where?

May 18, 2018 by Rosie

Riwaka flooding with houses and forestry debris

By Rebecca Macfie To counter climate change, New Zealand must vastly increase its area of forestry. But as recent disasters show, not all trees are created equal. July 2017 had been an unusually wet month on Banks Peninsula, where landowners Philip King and Sarah Lovell-Smith own the historic … [Read more...]

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