One of the biggest kauri seed collections to be undertaken in decades is under way across the upper North Island, in an effort to identify trees that are ...

The Ministry of Primary Industries alleges 73-year-old Graeme Platt is responsible for illegally importing seeds of an exotic kauri tree banned in New Zealand, and growing 30 of the trees at the ...

If there's one thing the kauri tree has taught its passionate admirers, it's to take the long view. The tree, after all, is a survivor. For a species that's been so heavily plundered, says ...

At some point, a kauri tree fell in a New Zealand forest, and no one noticed. Nor did anyone pay attention when the remnant of its trunk rotted away, leaving behind a stump that’s barely even a ...

Although Graham had a good start with his kauri quest in New Caledonia, a place he describes as "a mine of trees", obtaining seed generally required great patience and he quickly learned that ...

Giant kauri trees start with small cones and seeds. Jill K. Robinson/Special to The Chronicle. Looking up at Te Matua Ngahere, the “Father of the Forest,” estimated to be nearly 3,000 years ...

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: “You ...