Biologists Said This Mountain Was Dead — Then One Farmer's 47-Km Fence Brought Back 700 Species
48K views · Aug 10, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@virginiatyree6705 · 1 month ago (edited)
Glad that there are people that are creative. Thanks for posting.
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@skinny_yeah-p3s · 1 month ago (edited)
I remember when the visited Hora Hora primary school with a model of the fence and some traps before they started building it. a friends dad was on the trust and helped raise funds for the project. i think he also helped design it aswell
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@matthighway7794 · 1 month ago
It was great going through it with the farmers during construction and consequential visits. Shame about narration here, but a good story none the less.
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@PiriPaua · 1 month ago
You'd think a NZder would have narrated this piece,
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@prosodiclearning · 1 month ago
Let us preserve ithe Maunga . Do not let greed and selfishness rob us again . .
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@naomisee789 · 1 month ago
It's a NURSERY for NATIVE SPECIES - and a lovely success.<br>Calling it a ZOO is just negative inflammatory jargon.
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@legonut78 · 1 month ago
First. This is awesome. Second, the raw materials to preserve this natural space, are obtained by destroying nature space somewhere else (plus forever maintenance requires infinite resources). Such mixed feelings.
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@joanie292 · 1 month ago
Really interesting and I’m surprised I didn’t know anything about this. Shows when people work together they can achieve great outcomes. Maybe using more volunteers more the costs of maintaining can be decreased? Thanks for sharing.
@MrBook123456 · 1 month ago
good
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@JL-gx6dy · 1 month ago
Just so people know the kiwi actually has the shortest beak in the world because how they measure they measure from the nostrils to the tip of the beak in the nostrils are on the tip of the Beaker on the kiwi
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@Rod_J · 1 month ago
Invasive predator free NZ sounds great, but the first invasive predator we would need to eradicate are the politicians.<br>The current bunch want to mine the Coromandel ffs.
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@asub_1773 · 1 month ago
This works for humans as well...
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