The Auckland Council Regional Development and Operations Committee on Thursday voted to close 13 Kauri Protection Areas throughout the Waitakere Ranges, involving 27 km of tracks, to try and halt  [ Read More ]

A number of walking tracks in the Waitakere Ranges will be closed from 14 October 2011 to 12 December 2011 to help prevent the spread of kauri dieback disease. The affected  [ Read More ]

Attached is an article about Kauri PTA published in Forest Health News (Scion publication). FHnews-208_August2010[1]Background to this article is that it is Ross Beever’s response to an article published in  [ Read More ]

Kauri dieback or phytophthora taxon agathis is an organism that infects New Zealand’s iconic kauri, causing bleeding lesions on the trunk, collar-rot and gradually loss of foliage and death. The  [ Read More ]