From July this year, kauri protection zones in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park in Auckland will be put in place to protect healthy kauri trees. Kauri dieback disease is widespread in the Waitakere Ranges, but there are pockets of health with apparently unaffected trees. The Auckland Council is closing fifteen tracks in these areas to form protection zones and keep these areas free of the soil-borne disease. “This is a precautionary approach,” says Cr Sandra Coney, Chair of the Parks, Recreation and Heritage Forum.
“It is an attempt to control the spread of this disease that is devastating the giants of our forests and threatening the entire future of kauri, while still allowing people’s enjoyment of the ranges and its tracks.
“We are also investigating steps to take a similar approach in the near future in the Hunua Ranges Regional Park, which is so far disease-free” she says.
Protection zones in the Cascade Kauri, Anawhata, Waiatarua, Piha, Karekare, Huia and Parau areas have been identified. Sections of tracks within these zones, totalling 27km of the track network, will be closed and reviewed in 12 months to assess the effectiveness of this management approach. The Department of Conservation has also closed tracks this year in their Mataitai Reserve (near the Hunua Ranges) for a period of five years to protect healthy kauri. DOC will monitor regularly for the presence of kauri dieback and the effectiveness of the track closure.”
Visit www.kauridieback.co.nz for more information.
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Not so funny that the kauri dieback should be happening, now many areas in NZ are being sprayed with chemtrails. Contrails are the hot exhaust gases of high altitude jets that dissipate in about one minute.
In USA, especially in California the dieback of trees is quite common & areas of sky are constantly showing the signature white criss-cross patterns.
Independent labs have tested samples of plants, water & soil & find elevated levels up to 400 times more than the so called safe level of aluminium, barium, strontium & heaps more toxic stuff to humans let alone trees. I think the response of mainstream media there is to call it a ‘mystery disease’ & do nothing.
At least there is no more toxic crap being sprayed to ‘fix’ the problem. With DOC’s obsession to use 1080 & Brodificoum, both of which are flouride compounds & derived from bio-weapons research, one would not expect this comment to be taken seriously as there is no ‘science’ to back it up. (Don’t forget, we get flouride in drinking & bottled water too.)
However if scientists do have the main tenet of science still, (To investigate with an open mind) & check it out, if managment allows them without threats of job loss. The only possible action is to STOP SPRAYING CHEMTRAILS, then we will have some Kauri trees left for the tourists.
We could get our ex banker PM to sell them cheap to his fellow criminal mate overseas, along with our state assets….not.
This action to preserve the forest is indeed important to the lives of the trees as well as to the whole balance of ecology.