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Indigenous forests on public conservation land store 1.3 billion metric tonnes of carbon.

Native forests: Catching carbon and combating climate change

Department of Conservation —  29/12/2014

Not only are our forests cool, but they’re literally keeping us cool by removing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Red Mistletoe - Peraxilla tetrapetala. Photo: Andy | flickr | © All rights reserved.

Photo of the week: Underneath the mistletoe

Department of Conservation —  24/12/2014

New Zealand’s red mistletoe, Peraxilla tetrapetala, one of nine mistletoe species native to New Zealand.

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Drosera peltata sundew. Photo: Tony Foster | CC BY-ND 2.0.

Call of the weird

Department of Conservation —  20/12/2014

New Zealand does have its oddities, its strange beasts and weird plants. By this I don’t mean kiwi or tuatara, but lesser known creatures, the ones which have no hope of gracing a coin or a stamp.

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Planting day on the banks of the Kakanui river.

Planting on the banks of the Kakanui

Department of Conservation —  18/12/2014

On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon DOC staff in Oamaru helped the Landcare Trust out at their planting day along the banks of the Kakanui River.

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Arthur Cowan.

Arthur Cowan—a conservation legend

Department of Conservation —  15/12/2014

A story about the humble conservation legend, Arthur Blair Cowan MBE, who passed away in Otorohanga last month, aged 98.

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