Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai
Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its
kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh
let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’
gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native
forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was
the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.
Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500
hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife
are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. (Click here to view video if reading in email.)
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