It has been known for a long time that vulnerable land in Tairāwhiti is unsuitable for harvested tree crops and livestock. These soils are too fragile, catchments are steep, streams are short and fast-flowing in rain, dead and dying wetlands still want to be wetlands. Outside my backdoor is hundreds of hectares of 50/60-year-old naturally regenerating kanuka and rewarewa forest sequestering carbon. When farmed, this mostly steep land was pockmarked in large to small slips — virtually none are visible today.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/letter/small-cost-and-effort-for-native-regeneration-mainly-takes-time

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