But kauri trees are in trouble. Last year, people started reporting dead or dying specimens. Some had spindly yellowing branches and sap oozing from their mighty trunks; others had lost their ...

“Immediately the question comes up, why would a tree be alive without any foliage?” To find out, the duo returned and stuck both the stump and the two nearest kauri trees with bunches of ...

In a forest in New Zealand, a vampire clings to life. Once a mighty kauri tree — a species of conifer that can grow up to 165 feet (50 meters) tall — the low, leafless stump looks like it ...

Security guard the trees from protestors at an address in Titirangi where contractors are trying to cut down a protected Kauri tree. Photo / Dean Purcell The ancient kauri saved by protesters is ...

We suggest this supply can continue beyond the apparent death of an individual tree. By measuring water flow in the stem of a living kauri (Agathis australis) stump and its neighbouring trees ...

artists and Māori elders were gathered to share knowledge and inspiration on how to save an iconic tree species, kauri, from a lethal pathogen, Phytophthora agathidicida. Elder Tohe Ashby had just ...

Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease. Tourists visiting Tāne Mahuta, the largest known kauri ...

By JoAnna Klein In a rain forest near Auckland, New Zealand, a leafless kauri tree stump rises a few feet off the ground. These trees can become giants: The country’s biggest, Tāne Mahuta ...

A kauri tree stump in the middle of an Auckland forest has offered new insights into tree communities, which could be harnessed to fight Kauri dieback, research suggests. Essentially, kauri trees ...