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One-third of Great Mercury Island is cloaked in a canopy of a pine forest, planted in the early 1980s. Beneath blooms an understorey of native trees and shrubs. The 2014 pest eradication on the island was the first to be conducted in such a modified forest context, providing both hope and baseline data to guide programmes in similar environs on the mainland. It is backed up with a comprehensive programme of monitoring (DOC’s Conservation Dog team logged 800 kilometres surveying the island), and a network of traps and ink track-pads that wait in constant vigilance.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 137 January - February 2016.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2015.
Read the Features: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/treasure-island/
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TREASURE ISLAND
One-third of Great Mercury Island is cloaked in a canopy of a pine forest, planted in the early 1980s. Beneath blooms an understorey of native trees and shrubs. The 2014 pest eradication on the island was the first to be conducted in such a modified forest context, providing both hope and baseline data to guide programmes in similar environs on the mainland. It is backed up with a comprehensive programme of monitoring (DOC’s Conservation Dog team logged 800 kilometres surveying the island), and a network of traps and ink track-pads that wait in constant vigilance.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 137 January - February 2016.<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2015.<br /> Read the Features: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/treasure-island/