An individual kauri can live for more than two millennia, reaching 200 feet tall and more than 16 feet in diameter. Today, the living trees grow only in remnant pockets in northern New Zealand ...

"Some of these trees were here before anyone came to New Zealand." But kauri trees are in trouble. Last year, people started reporting dead or dying specimens. Some had spindly yellowing branches ...

Kauri, native to New Zealand, are among the world’s longest-living trees, and Tāne Mahuta has been growing in Waipoua Forest for about 2,000 years — longer than New Zealand has been inhabited ...

People can help prevent the spread of kauri dieback by respecting the rāhui, fencing off kauri on private properties, getting ...

home to the largest kauri, the Te Roroa iwi is managing one of the greatest tourist attractions of New Zealand’s far north. Since it regained management over the forest, it has taken the lead on the ...

After the bird symphony, all I hear are my footsteps on the path amid the living entities that were mature trees before any human came to the shores of New Zealand. Kauri are among the world’s ...

"The findings were made possible with ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which have been preserved in sediments for over 40,000 year. "Using the ancient trees we could measure, and date, the spike ...

Photo / NZ Herald Kiwi scientists have been astonished to find how kauri stumps can keep themselves alive by feeding off water from neighbouring trees. The AUT researchers behind the ground ...

“The findings were made possible with ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which have been preserved in sediments for over 40,000 years. “Using the ancient trees we could measure, and ...

In New Zealand, the Maori tribes still retain some pockets of their large kauri trees, most of them on North Island. In recent decades they’ve even used them to build several voyaging canoes ...

Protestor Michael Tavares spent three days in a kauri tree. Photo / Dean Purcell Letters sent to west Auckland iwi and local board members about a proposal to fell two large kauri trees in ...