But kauri trees are in trouble ... killing at least a million trees, mostly black oak, tanoak and coast live oak. New Zealand's stricken trees have attracted expert attention.

Amanda Black, a senior lecturer in bioprotection ... that make cultural sense to the people living with these trees.” Applying ground-up whale bones to the lesions of ailing kauri could even be ...

It threatens not only individual kauri trees, but the entire ecosystem around them. If kauri disappear, so do all the other plants and animals that depend on them. This disease also threatens ...

Kauri trees were logged to the brink in the 19th and 20th centuries ... the whispering of glowing silver ferns — an unofficial national symbol — and the clear, tuneful calls of large black tuis, a ...

At The Kauri Museum in Matakohe, New Zealand, biologist Dr. Jonathan Palmer explains a novel approach to assessing global climate change - by analyzing the rings of ancient kauri trees. This work ...

Roughly 50,000 years ago, a series of horrible storms wracked northern New Zealand, burying stands of ancient Kauri trees in peat and ... Herald calls it a “black gold rush,” with crews ...

Radiocarbon analyses of the remains of kauri trees from New Zealand now make it ... the Earth's magnetic field from sediment cores of the Black Sea by Norbert Nowaczyk and his team from 2013 ...

The Government's new tree planting scheme could backfire. New research has found that planting more pine trees in the far north could be making it harder to protect kauri trees.

TANE Mahuta is the Maori name for New Zealand’s revered kauri tree. Indeed, a Department of Conservation sign in front of one such tree in Northland’s Waipuna forest informs visitors ...

Access to New Zealand's tallest surviving kauri tree, Tāne Mahuta, will be closed for the next two months while the boardwalk and viewing platform are replaced. The upgrade is the first phase of ...