If you have kauri on or near your property please visit http://www.arc.govt.nz/environment/biosecurity/kauri-dieback/kauri-dieback-how-you-can-help_home.cfm- to find out about kauri dieback disease and what you can do to prevent its spread.
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Kauri dieback disease
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Thanks Nick; I live up Rame Road from Lucas Creek. My wife Bera and I take note of Kauri we see on our 90-minute daily walk around Greenhithe.
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Here's our guide to spotting Kauri collar rot and preventing its spread
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Posted 2 years ago # -
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Just wondering... is there any chance that this disease has allways been around? We have only just discovered it?
I guess even if it has been there are a lot less Kauri these days! (look after the ones we have aye!)Posted 2 years ago # -
They think that Kauri collar rot has been on Great Barrier island for the past 30 years. It has only just come onto the mainland in the last few years. If you want to find out more about Kauri dieback, contact Nick Waipara from the Auckland Regional Council.
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Cheers Mandy!
Posted 2 years ago # -
So are Kauri still surviving on the Great Barrier?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Initial investigations show that kauri dieback is more prominent in areas near tramping tracks, so the president of the Waitakere Ranges protection society has suggested that all tramping tracks should be closed -
Call to close tracks to save dying kauri
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10585656
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But all those people would still surely go tramping, but now without 'formally signed' tracks they'd likely bush-crash to make their own instead - wouldn't this just spread the disease further and uncontrolled? Wouldn't it be better to keep it to limited areas?
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We might only have 3% of our original kauri forest left but it looks like the government is putting up a fair whack of money to help save them -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10608064
Hopefully, it's enough......
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Maybe only 3% of original kauri forest left, Kauri dieback disease, and still we are allowed to cut them down!? WHY?
I was talking with a farmer yesterday that was about to get a permit to cut a whole lot down! He's done it many times before.Attachments
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It's so good to see that a Kauri National park is back on the agenda (and not before time, but we won't go there...). As far as I'm aware, F&B are dragging out their old "Create a Kauri Park" posters again..
As for the kauri dieback; it hasn't seemed to hit us here in the heart of Auckland yet (and yes, there are still some kauris here....8-) ) - seems to be pretty isolated over at Waitakere, and is it out on GBI?Posted 1 year ago # -
noooooooooooooo ! you are sadly miss informed re PTA around Auckland !
there are lots of small stands of kauri that have been affected around Ak for example in the Albany scenic reserve off Wright Rd, there are lots of beautiful kauri down the ridge from the road that have been affected and there is a very large, very old kauri at the bottom of that gully that we are hoping wont be affected ... sadly there was no trigene or brushes at the start of this track last time I looked so people could be going in there and walking it downhill and then taking it to other areas ... scrub on the way in and scrub on the way out !
Every forest and bird trip in this area that goes anywhere near kauri should be sure to scrub there boots first and use trigene to disinfect them and again dont forget to scrub on the way out in case you have picked up any trigene spores from unseen affected trees
the only way to prevent spread of this disease is to take those simple precautions ... there are some good places like the forest and bird walk at Dunns bush last sunday had trigene and scrubbing brush to hand for the group that went thru there and the forest and bird reserve on Taylor rd in waimauku has brushes and trigene availabl so there are a few people getting it right
you need to be constantly vigilant and keep pushing the message to scrub and disinfect or your kind of complacency will see it everywhere around Ak and NO healthy kauri trees and that wd be sad
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What about in the heart (Central) of Auckland, and further south and east? This side of the harbour bridge and towards the Hunuas. Any in those areas?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Went out to Awhitu today and the dieback's out there.
Posted 1 year ago #
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