Native Forestry

Mapere Forestry Habitat - Orongo Station, North Island, New Zealand

March 2020

Paul worked with Nelson Byrd Woltz in the planning and the first phases of installation for a long-term agroforestry project. An inherited 32ha plantation of the useful yet ubiquitous and ecologically negative Radiata Pine were removed from the property. Research was carried out to understand the state of the world’s forests and the threats caused by agriculture and logging. The Mapere forestry habitat project is a model for future domestic agriculture, and imagines a diverse forest of high-value native timbers that supports reintroduced populations of the threatened Kiwi and Wheka. The project is an invitation to the owners and others who visit the site to look beyond their own lifetimes and long into the future to the world as it may be left for generations to come.