BoP businesses asked to foot the bill for Kaimāī's resources

BoP businesses asked to foot the bill for Kaimāī's resources
Te Aroha is the highest point in the Kaimāī Range. (Photo: Rebecca Lee)
Greg Hurrell
Anyone who has driven from Hamilton to Tauranga, or through the Karangahake Gorge between Paeroa and Waihī, has been through the Kaimāī Range.It forms a barrier between the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions and is a mix of native forest with tramping tracks and huts, pasture land and plantation forest.In recent years, the Manaaki Kaimāī Mamaku trust has received millions of dollars in public funding to restore native forest and manage animal and plant pests in and around the range.The trust’s chief executive officer, Louise Saunders, says...

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