Kaingaroa Forest

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Location of the Kaingaroa Forest

The Kaingaroa Forest is the largest forest on the North Island of New Zealand and was the largest forest plantation in the southern hemisphere in the 20th century.

geography

The forest covers 2900 km² in the area of ​​the East Cape and the Bay of Plenty . It extends east of Lake Taupo from northeast to southwest. The forest management of the area is located in the settlement of Kaingaroa , 50 km southeast of Rotorua . The New Zealand State Highway 38 leads from Mount Moungakakaramea ( Rainbow Mountain ) to Murupara and on through Te Urewera to Wairoa, crossing the forest.

history

The first plantings were made in the late 1920s as a state forest and covered around 100,000  acres of land, known at the time as the Kaingaroa State Forest . Further plantings of around 100,000 hectares were made in 1994.

In the 1980s, the government sought to sell the forest to private owners. Several Māori - Iwi , however, went to court. They argued that as traditional owners of the land they had been illegally expropriated and that the government should keep the land until the Māori claims were finally resolved. It took 20 years to complete, and on July 1, 2009, the land was returned to traditional owners as part of the government's compensatory measures for the Crown's breach of the Waitangi Treaty . The wood is owned by the private Kaingaroa Timberlands Ltd. who has a license to manage the land for forestry.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topo maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed April 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Rien Visser : New Zealand forestry and the forest code of practice . Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , accessed April 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Michael Roche : Exotic forestry - The first planting boom, 1925-1935 . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , November 24, 2008, accessed April 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Treelord deal takes a step closer . The National Buisiness Review , June 11, 2008, archived from the original on June 10, 2011 ; accessed on April 22, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
  5. ^ Largest ever Treaty deal 'Treelords' passes into law . In: New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publishing , September 25, 2008, accessed April 22, 2019 .