It was a kauri tree, a copper-skinned conifer endemic to New Zealand. The indigenous Māori hold the species sacred and use its honey-colored softwood for traditional carvings and ocean-going canoes.

That means the tree is also ripe for harvest ... At the turn of the last century, New Zealand scholars suggested that both the Māori and the kauri would soon be extinct. Over the last couple of ...

It is the largest kauri tree known to be living: 177 feet tall, 53 feet in circumference. Kauri, native to New Zealand, are among the world's longest-living trees, and Tane Mahuta has been growing ...

Tourists visiting Tāne Mahuta, the largest known kauri tree, in Waipoua Forest in New Zealand. The tree is named for a god in Māori mythology.Credit...Ruth Mcdowall for The New York Times ...

Maori guide Charlie Naera shares tales of New Zealand's Kauri trees on the Footprints Waipoua tour. (Photo: Bonnie Munday) I first heard of the kauri (pronounced kah-oo-ree), the world’s third-largest ...

But I’m in New Zealand, and there are none ... and when you look at the kauri seed and the eventual size of the kauri tree, you understand.” Looking up at Te Matua Ngahere, the “Father ...

WAIPOUA FOREST, New Zealand — Two arborists ... He was about to ascend a 148-foot-tall, 2,000-year-old kauri tree known as Tane Mahuta, a tree so sacred to the indigenous Maori people that ...

Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London. Languages ...

TANE Mahuta is the Maori name for New Zealand’s revered kauri tree. Indeed, a Department of Conservation sign in front of one such tree in Northland’s Waipuna forest informs visitors ...

Claessens has discovered that the kauri trees in New Zealand prevent landslides ... the trees gain by living far longer than other tree species. At present the slopes are drained and large ...