Te Urewera Board has invited public submissions on its draft Te Kawa o Te Urewera (Te Kawa), which presents a new way to understand the relationship between people and Te Urewera and places respect ...

The Whanganui River on New Zealand's North Island will soon be given legal personhood.(Flickr/Kathrin and Stefan Marks/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The New Zealand government is planning on giving the country's ...

Dozens of back country huts are to be removed from Te Urewera Ranges by the Tūhoe iwi authority. Tony Wall reports. A plan by Tūhoe to remove dozens of back country huts over summer has upset some ...

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Sometimes I get the urge to head for the hills or in other words Te Urewera. The more than 200-square-kilometre forest straddles Bay of Plenty and northern Hawke’s Bay and is the traditional home of ...

Remote, rugged, immense and wreathed in mist and mysticism, Te Urewera is the home of the Tuhoe people. Revered for its lakes and forested beauty, Lake Waikaremoana (Sea of Rippling Waters) is just ...

The shocking poverty experienced by Te Urewera Maori was in large part caused by the Crown's many breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Waitangi Tribunal has found in the sixth and final volume of ...

Te Urewera, one of the country’s most isolated rainforests, was the world’s first natural resource to be granted the same rights as a legal person. By Jacqui Gibson A forlorn scrap of white mist ...

Its board says manuhiri (guests) and Tuhoe users will be welcomed back for recreational activity, including on Lake Waikaremoana, for which access will reopen next Sunday, Waitangi Day. All tracks, ...

The mysterious destruction of an old biodiversity hut in Te Urewera while a court injunction is in place has highly concerned some locals and conservationists. The Otamatuna Hut in the Waimana Valley ...

Te Urewera Board has invited public submissions on its draft Te Kawa o Te Urewera (Te Kawa), which presents a new way to understand the relationship between people and Te Urewera and places respect ...