10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2011
It should actually be the New Zealand kauri, as the genus is found from Borneo to Fiji and down to New Zealand. Although the kauri are now protected by law, as well as several parks created for their protection, they face a new danger. This is the kauri , Agathis austalis , the largest tree in New Zealand. They are indeed mighty trees.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things. For the most part it seems that the species that were lost were not deep forks in the evolutionary tree. They rise, only to fall beneath the waves again.
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