Founded in 1980, the NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust is an organisation involved in forest restoration.
The Trust acquires land to protect important species, restore their
habitats
In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...
and to improve the quality of waterways. It now has 28 reserves throughout the
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-larges ...
and 2 in the
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasma ...
totalling over 7,000ha of protected native forests.
Sir
Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineering, mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropy, philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa people, Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became th ...
was the foundation patron of the trust until his death in 2008. Sir
Paul Reeves
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*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
* Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...
then became patron until his death in 2011.
The Trust publishes its ''Canopy'' newsletter twice a year.
See also
*
List of environmental organizations
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that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
In this sense the environme ...
References
External links
Official Native Forest Restoration Trust website
Nature conservation organisations based in New Zealand
Forest conservation organizations
Forests of New Zealand
Reforestation
Environmental organizations established in 1980
1980 establishments in New Zealand
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