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"Native Forest and the Rise of Preservation in New Zealand (1903–1913)"
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
The history of environmental anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand can be traced by focusing on problems caused by deforestation.
During the 1840s, the biometric approach to soil fertility appraisal was found to be a false one, and was replaced by a developing ecological one, which relied on specific plant indicators of soil fertility.
Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population…