With children heading back to school at the height of summer, a recent study finds too many playgrounds need better tree ...

New Zealand’s current Minister of Education ... that shrub layer and some vegetation complexity. The most common native tree by far was pōhutakawa. But planting a monoculture of pōhutakawa ...

Wellington, New Zealand: The mutual dependence of a colorful pigeon and some of New Zealand’s iconic trees is at the centre of a landmark Year of the Forests project in that country. A project to help ...

Native plants in the Tongariro National Park ... The work, funded by a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, was part of broader research investigating how changes in alpine plant ...

Northern rātā trees are endemic to New Zealand and were once one of the most ... a pathogenic fungi native to South America ...

Now researchers say there is a solution that could mitigate the damage. Setting up forests or “tree islands” in large oil palm farms can help restore biodiversity and ecosystems by aiding the natural ...