{"id":47427,"date":"2022-08-14T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/14\/salvation-of-new-zealands-dying-giant-kauri-trees-may-have-roots-in-maori-wisdom"},"modified":"2022-08-14T04:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:00:48","slug":"salvation-of-new-zealands-dying-giant-kauri-trees-may-have-roots-in-maori-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47427","title":{"rendered":"Salvation of New Zealand\u2019s dying giant kauri trees may have roots in M\u0101ori wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest trees, kauri are threatened by dieback and climate change. But there is hope for the revered species<\/p>\n<p>Look out at the forest of Waitakere and you will see the skeleton of Aunt Agatha above the treeline. The tree \u2013 who gained her nickname from generations of schoolchildren \u2013 was still alive and topped with a proud plume of foliage just a few years ago. Now the trunk stands white as an exposed bone, huge ribbons of bark sloughed off on the ground like recently shed skin.<\/p>\n<p>Ranger Stuart Leighton walks down an empty track toward her, stepping on to the large, freshly completed wooden deck. It\u2019s kind of unusual, he says, to build a viewing platform for a dead tree. \u201cWe wanted to make a point: this isn\u2019t some made-up thing, or something that\u2019s not serious or something on a tiny little scale that we\u2019re overcooking. This is a very real thing that\u2019s happening to our forest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/14\/salvation-of-new-zealands-dying-giant-kauri-trees-may-have-roots-in-maori-wisdom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest trees, kauri are threatened by dieback and climate change. But there is hope for the revered speciesLook out at the forest of Waitakere and you will see the skeleton of Aunt Agatha above the treeline. The tree \u2013 who gained her nic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,897,56,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-trees-and-forests"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47427\/revisions\/47475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}