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  List of trees of New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Zealand's long geological isolation means that most of its flora is unique.
There are a wide variety of native trees, adapted to all the various micro-climates in New Zealand.
The native bush (forest) ranges from the temperate rainforests of the West Coast, the alpine forests of the Southern Alps and Fiordland to the coastal forests of the Abel Tasman National Park and the Catlins.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_trees_of_New_Zealand   (178 words)

  
 New Zealand - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
New Zealand is responsible for the self-governing states of the Cook Islands and Niue and administers Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.
New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the then-Australian Colonies.
New Zealand's most popular sports are rugby (primarily rugby union but also rugby league), soccer (the most popular sport amongst children), cricket, and netball (the sport with the most players); golf, tennis, rowing, cycling and a variety of water sports, particularly sailing.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=21118   (2779 words)

  
 About money tree
Trees are important components of the natural landscape and significant elements in landscaping.
Tree in Chile.jpg consists of xylem cells, and bark is primarily made of phloem.
For examples: most palm trees are not branched, the saguaro cactus of North America has no functional leaves, tree ferns do not have bark, etc. Based on their rough shape and size, all of these are nonetheless generally regarded as trees.
www.money-make.net /money-tree.htm   (848 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
New Zealand is responsible for the self-governing states of the Cook Islands and Niue and administers Tokelau and the
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy.
Queen of New Zealand and is represented as head of state by the Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/New_Zealand.html   (2377 words)

  
 EnciclopedyNew Zealand -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
New Zealand also maintains responsibility for the foreign affairs of the self-governing countries of the Cook Islands and Niue, and administers the dependency of Tokelau.
New Zealand's most popular sports are rugby (primarily rugby union but also rugby league), soccer (the most popular sport amongst children), cricket, and netball (the sport with the most players); golf, tennis, rowing and a variety of water sports, particularly sailing.
New Zealand is world-famous among glider pilots for hosting the 1995 Gliding World Cup at Omarama in North Otago near the centre of the South Island.
www.adago.com /New_Zealand.html   (2526 words)

  
 Country Profile - New Zealand
New Zealand is fortunate that absolute poverty as defined in the Programme of Action of the Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development, 1995 is not part of its economic and social environment.
New Zealand's tax system is such that the costs incurred by a forestry business in planting, tending and maintaining a crop of trees are fully deductible from income of any source in the same year costs are incurred.
New Zealand is an island nation and the majority of its population live on or very close to the coast.
www.un.org /esa/earthsummit/newze-cp.htm   (12904 words)

  
 Mysteries and curiosities of New Zealand (in English)
New Zealand received a replica of this wonder device from the Municipal government of Beijing in China.
It was photographed in Wanaka, New Zealand, on the slope of the Coromandel Peak.
Namely, why New Zealand does not have native land animals, in spite that it is full of their fossils.
storm.prohosting.com /craters/newzealand.htm   (14844 words)

  
 Terrific Trees: Unit Plan [English Online]
Using a photograph of a tree, or their own drawing, students write a description or recount (this could also be done collaboratively).
Each member of the group is to draw or photograph the tree, label the parts of the tree and write a fact file.
Lots of information on a year in the life of a tree, uses for trees, and how trees can be protected, and the importance of biodiversity.
english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/trees/home.html   (989 words)

  
 The New Zealand Site
The eruption had also opened up a new string of craters and thermal activity in the Waimangu valley that drew tourists - particularly an explosive geyser that blasted a fl mixture of steam and rocks up to 400m in the air (Waimangu means fl water).
Tourism, farming and forestry remain the principal industries of the Rotorua region, as they are for the whole of New Zealand really.
A particular feature of New Zealand's bit of crust is that it is not very thick, at about 15 - 20 km as opposed to the normal 35 - 45 km, so the effect of the rising magma is intensified.
thenewzealandsite.com /article/Rotorua   (2058 words)

  
 Where do you want to go birding in New Zealand today?
Biodiversity on the Chatham Islands of New Zealand - by Bruce Marcot.
New Zealand is gorgeous: a combination of the rolling hills and sheep of Scotland, the snow-capped craggy mountains of Switzerland, and the fiords of Norway.
Birding New Zealand requires long treks between places, and often we would drive much of a day (through scenery that ranged from pleasant to downright spectacular) to a location that would add one or a few species to the trip list.
www.camacdonald.com /birding/panewzealand.htm   (2710 words)

  
 Taste New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We are a country peopled by many races but the rat race is still largely confined to the Auckland region in the north of the North Island, which accommodates the bulk of the population but very few of the brains.
New Zealand was populated by the Maori people who sailed from the Pacific Islands reputedly a good many years before Europeans knew much about navigation.
As a result of having such a comfortable climate it would be far easier to make a list of plants that won't grow somewhere in New Zealand (I can't think of one), a country about the size of a large banana, than a list of plants that will (banana, crocus).
www.delphinium.co.nz /TasteOfNewZealand.htm   (924 words)

  
 Planet Ark : Fungus threatens to croak New Zealand frogs
New Zealand's four matchbox-sized native frog species all lack ears, don't croak and hatch directly into froglets without going through a tadpole stage.
New Zealand's rarest species, the Hamilton's frog, numbers less than 300 and is found only on a few hundred square metres (yards) of rocky ground on the summit of a single islet between the South Pacific country's main North and South Islands.
The chytrid fungus, identified in Australia and central America in 1998, was discovered in New Zealand in 1999.
www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/15567/story.htm   (535 words)

  
 Phylogeny Programs
Here is a "waiting list" of new programs.) Many of the programs in these pages are available on the web, and some of them are also available from ftp server machines.
I have listed as free those that I knew were free; for the others you have to ask their distributor.
Their listing has links to the web sites of the software; for those programs that are not available by Web they maintain copies for download at their server.
evolution.genetics.washington.edu /phylip/software.html   (1948 words)

  
 New Zealand
Looking down as the plane approaches Blenheim on the tip of New Zealand’s north island, you see a flat stony floodplain with ridges of soil running in one direction juxtaposed with rows upon rows of upright vines, often just a few metres apart, running at right angles.
This is New Zealand’s internationally renowned Marlborough region which lies nestled in a beautiful valley bordered on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the sea.
Further afield is Alan Scott’s elegant outdoor vineyard restaurant surrounded by walnut trees and lavender bushes; the charming La Verandah, situated amongst the vines at Rapaura and designed in the style of languid Reunion island dwellings; and the Wairau Winery, a smart mud-brick style building where you can also sit outside amongst the vines.
www.travellady.com /Issues/Issue70/70G-newzealand.htm   (1599 words)

  
 Milford Wilderness Cycling - Goway's New Zealand - Goway Travel Experiences
Strong riders can cycle to the summit of the Crown Range, at 1076 meters its is New Zealand’s highest alpine highway, while those who want an easier option can drive to the top, before enjoying the magnificent downhill into the Queenstown basin.
Goway is the first commercial company in New Zealand to initiate this policy.
One third of New Zealand land is conservation land, managed by the Department of Conservation.
www.goway.com /downunder/newzealand/nz_cycling.html   (1978 words)

  
 Mysteries and curiosities of New Zealand (in English)
The problem is, however, that New Zealanders are strangely shy and humble when comes to the subject of mysteries present in their country.
So in spite that New Zealand is actually full of mysteries, one needs to be very lucky to hear about them or to find a publication that describes any of them.
However, this inventor was so persecuted by New Zealand bureaucrats, that his heater never received permits required to be put into a mass production in factories.
newzealand.0me.com /newzealand.htm   (15473 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - New Zealand
For those researching the Royal New Zealand Fencibles, a corp of retired soldiers from Britain and Ireland who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand 1847-1852 and formed the defence force which protected the early settlers of Auckland.
Lists details of burials in Symonds Street Cemetery, the main Auckland cemetery until it closed in 1886.
Shipwreck on the coast of New Zealand in 1862.
www.cyndislist.com /newzealand.htm   (2740 words)

  
 TerraNature | New Zealand Ecology - Native birds list
"Few people are aware that, as the authors claim, New Zealand has a better record of the birds that lived over the past 100,000 years than any other area of the world.
The avifauna is the strongest feature of New Zealand biodiversity, and most strongly represents the evolution of unique species in a long period of isolation without mammals.
Left bottom: Large kauri, permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
www.terranature.org /nativeBirds_list.htm   (314 words)

  
 New Zealand 2001 Photo Gallery by Dave Whiley at pbase.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The results are not as good as I would have hoped, and I suspect that they've been manipulated once or twice too often.
Rescanning the original slides is on my list of Things To Do.
It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest.
www.pbase.com /djw_photo_42/newzealand01   (107 words)

  
 Timberline Trees Current Tree Availability - high end specimen trees
Timberline Trees specializes in supplying mature olive trees and oaks as well as difficult to find specimen trees.
The current availability is a sampling, not an exclusive list, of trees we provide.
If you don't see the tree you are looking for, please e-mail us.
www.timberlinetreesearch.com /treelist.html   (100 words)

  
 Friends of the Urban Forest: Tree Listings
Many factors go into deciding what tree to plant and how to maintain it.
Please contact FUF staff for specific information about your situation.
Ceratonia siliqua - Carob Tree, St. John's Bread
www.fuf.net /tree_plantings/gallery_of_urban_trees.html   (95 words)

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