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A Forest of Giants - The kauri gum diggers of the Kauaeranga Valley by Robyn Pearce - Coromind Issue 31, 2025
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Kauri are among the largest and longest living trees in the world with two ancient giants, Tanenui and Tairua, recorded on the Coromandel Peninsula in 1986. (Ref: Te Ara, teara.govt.nz.) The Kauaeranga Valley was once filled with magnificent kauri trees, but with the arrival of the European settlers thousands of massive trees were felled, and by 1928 most of the kauri had been logged.
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