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	Replanting Native Dune Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pingao is used by Maori for weaving and a current increase in traditional weaving has helped deplete the grasses.
		Pingao is replanted on dunes using nursery-raised seedlings.
		Unlike pingao, spinifex is difficult to grow in nursery from seed and is usually spread by direct seeding and transplanting of cuttings.
	www.seakeepers-nz.com /SHOREWEB/dunepl.html (1168 words)

	Pingao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pingao Desmoschoenus spiralis is a coastal sedge endemic to New Zealand.
		New Zealand Department of Conservation - pingao information.
		This page was last modified 23:05, 8 June 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pingao (51 words)

	Unique New Zealand wildlife - Wanganui - Dunelands
		In response to duneland conditions, a small group of highly specialised plants has evolved, of which pingao, an endemic sedge, and spinifex, a grass, are the most widespread.
		Pingao's graceful orange-green leaves make it one of the dunelands' most colourful plants and it was much used by the Maori for weaving.
		Despite its range, pingao is now under threat from the planting of exotic plants such as marram grass and tree lupin, both of which consolidate sand and destroy the shifting sands pingao favours.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~janm/wildlife/wanganui/dunelands.htm (425 words)

	DOC Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Koitiata residents Arnold Nation and Peter Fraser are the driving force behind an enterprising project to grow pingao, or golden sand sedge - distinctive for its brilliant orange/gold colouring - in the glasshouse.
		Once a common sight at almost every beach, populations of pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) are now seen only in small clumps along the coast.
		One of the few native dune plants left in New Zealand, pingao is important in preserving coastal areas because it holds sand together and reduces the impact of erosion.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Whats-New/presult.asp?prID=1426 (485 words)

	BILL MANHIRE Songs of My Life \| NZETC
		She was mostly reserved for ceremonial occasions, piping me in to the senior prize-giving, and because words were no part of her business, Johnny Pingao remained a happy man. He travelled with Hank Mushroom and played in most parts of the lower South Island.
		The youngest brother pushed Maria forward with his goose wing, and Pingao sang about our wedding which was spoken of in many South Island towns.
		But when I grew interested in the bits of Lenin’s brain they have over in Moscow, Pingao was there on cue, writing a song about it.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-Ba11Spo-t1-body-d2.html (2153 words)

	Dune Systems
		The dominant native sand binding species at Mason Bay, pingao (Desmochoenus spiralis) and sand tussock (Austrofestuca littoralis) are keystone species, providing a habitat condusive to the survival of a range of other indigenous flora and fauna.
		Pingao dominates the near ground with the more continous green of marram grass covering the foredunes in the distance.
		The figure to the right represents a map of marram invasion of the study area of Mason Bay generated from aerial photography throught the use of a GIS.
	telperion.otago.ac.nz /erg/level2/dunes.htm (561 words)

	TDC > Coast Care August 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After years of being smothered the dune had to be cleared of weeds, soil and road fill before sand could be added to help recreate a natural dune.
		What a transformation: the grass and iceplant previously smothering the dune (see top picture) has been removed and recently planted spinifex and pingao (bottom pic) will enable the dune to become self-sustaining.
		Pingao and spinifex plantings have established and are restoring the natural character of the dune.
	www.tdc.govt.nz /index.php?CoastCareAugust2005 (227 words)

	Greater Wellington - Island Bay sand dunes
		The area of fenced dune is the last remaining remnant of a huge area of dunes at Island Bay that extended right back to Severn Street before the roads were put in. Follow the link to check out an aerial photo of the area.
		The surviving native pingao bed, along with the one at Houghton Bay, are the only ones left on the south coast between Eastbourne and Karori Rock.
		The group's focus over the next few years will be replacing introduced marram grass with native sand binding species including pingao and spinifex. They will also keep planting some native backdune coastal species near the road-side of the dune.
	www.gw.govt.nz /story6187.cfm (346 words)

	Weedbusting on Stewart Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As part of a the Department of Conservation’s ‘weedbusters’ initiative, the school has adopted Bathing Beach and has been working with DOC to get rid of the weed marram and replant some of New Zealand’s native sand binders.
		The school started the day by visiting the community nursery to look at plant propagation and to select their own individual pingao plant.
		This is the biggest single dune protection project in the Southern Hemisphere and has been enabled by the government’s biodiversity funding.
	www.biodiversity.govt.nz /news/media/current/28may04.html (310 words)

	2003 Award Winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Water quality testing in rivers and wetlands; planting native bush, streambanks and lakesides; restoring pingao populations to help toheroa regeneration and waste recycling programmes were among the winning environmental education projects granted Environmental Curriculum Awards.
		Opononi Area School won an award and $400 to build a shadehouse for growing pingao to plant on a native tree and dune reserve along the foredunes at Omapere Beach, near the school.
		The school, joined by iwi and a local beach care group, aims to educate students and the local community about the process of coastal restoration and the inter-relationships of species, their impact on each other and on tangata whenua.
	www.nrc.govt.nz /environmental.education/2003AwardWinners.shtml (1376 words)

	Target Eradication and a Great Place to Work
		Good populations of pingao remain, flocks of New Zealand dotterels feed and nest here and kiwi sign is common.
		Control is by use of ‘Gallant’ a herbicide specific to grasses (pingao is a sedge) and an ‘Argo’ - an 8-wheeled vehicle, complete with a 250-litre spray tank and two long hoses under pressure from a petrol pump.
		Results are impressive and the choking cloak of sage-green marram is being gradually drawn back to reveal creamy white dunes topped with a crest of golden pingao.
	extranet.doc.govt.nz /content/frontpage/2003/eradication.htm (442 words)

	EW Dunes
		These plants are well adapted to the dynamic conditions on the beach and send out runners which bind the sand.
		Pingao is a golden colour and is an important weaving material.
		It is also a threatened plant, and has to compete with introduced plants and survive grazing by rabbits.
	www.ew.govt.nz /enviroinfo/coasts/coastalecosystems/dunes.htm (794 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - New Zealand - Unique and Threated Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Endemism also extends to the genus level; 35 plant genera are found nowhere else in the world.
		An example is the endemic monotypic genus Desmoschoenus spiralis or Pingao golden sand sedge, a coastal plant used by the Maori people in traditional building construction.
		The fern Loxoma cunninghamii is one of the hotspot's "living fossils." Together with three species from Central America, L. cunninghamii constitutes the family Loxomataceae, whose closest relatives existed 60 million years ago.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/new_zealand/biodiversity.xml (1151 words)

	Blueskin Bay Newsletter : Neighbourhood Biology Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We studied the concepts of ecosystems and impacts; performed an experiment on the effects of vegetation in sand dune formation; distinguished native plants from exotics.
		During the field trip, we looked at how the exotic marram grass has replaced native pingao on the Spit and the impact of this vegetation change on the fore dunes.
		The students discovered that the sand binding pingao was completely destroyed by grazing and fire after the Europeans arrived, and that the sand dunes are no longer 20 to 40 feet high (as in a 1922 map).
	www.converge.org.nz /nbio/catchments/blueskin/bnl.1.05.98.html (893 words)

	Wandering Sands Photo \| TrekNature
		Different native grasses are used on these sand dunes to hold the sand there.
		Pingao is a sand binding plant that holds the shifting dunes together.
		This hardy grass has seedheads that are dispersed as ‘tumble weeds’ that are driven by the wind, and you can see them cartwheeling along the beach.
	www.treknature.com /gallery/Oceania/New_Zealand/photo13149.htm (455 words)

	group detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The dunes are being planted in pingao and spinifex, and walkway markers have been erected to guide people to the best places to cross the dunes to minimise erosion.
		With these funds, the group has set up a nursery to grow pingao and pohutukawa, and intends producing about 5000 plants each year.
		The group is eager to develop a relationship with local iwi to learn more about the archaeological, spiritual and wahi tapu sites in the area.
	www.landcare.org.nz /action/groups_detail.asp?LandcareGroupID=214 (294 words)

	Horizons Regional Council
		There will be a presentation by Moetatua Turoa about Pingao.
		Pingao is a rare coastal plant with important cultural values.
		Preparing an environmental education resource directory is one of the items on the agenda.
	www.horizons.govt.nz /?pageid=90&data_article=150 (314 words)

	A line in the sand has been drawn for Mason Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mason Bay, described as a dune system of international significance, will have marram completely removed and pingao restored over the next 10 years.
		This is the biggest single dune protection project in the Southern Hemisphere and results so far have been spectacular, said DOC biodiversity programme manager Brent Beaven.
		Mr Beavan said marram was vigorously taking over some of our most spectacular beaches and dunes, out competing threatened native plants such as pingao and changing the very way that dunes are formed.
	www.biodiversity.govt.nz /news/media/current/21nov05.html (415 words)

	~~ WEEDBUSTERS \| Weedbusters near you! ~~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The school started the day by visiting the community nursery where they selected their own individual pingao plant and learnt about the importance of pingao in weaving.
		Marram is vigorously taking over some of our most spectacular beaches, out competing threatened native plants such as pingao, and changing the very way that dunes are formed.
		This is the biggest single dune protection project in the Southern Hemisphere and has been enabled by the governments new biodiversity funding.
	www.weedbusters.org.nz /weedbuster_near_u/display_region.asp?Region=Southland (2802 words)

	Hawkes Bay Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ms Ropiha, who had a shouting match with Mr Nisbet on Saturday morning, said the developer was not keeping his side of an agreement signed in June with tangata whenua representatives Te Whanau o Rongomaiwahine Trust, in which she agreed to withdraw her Environment Court appeal against the subdivision.
		In the agreement the developer agreed to work with the Wairoa District Council to redirect the entry road so that it does not go through a pingao garden.
		Ms Ropiha said she had met with Mr Freeman to show him how forming the paper road would destroy a mound that was not just the site of a pingao garden but also marked the "Nga Tuahine" site.
	www.hbtoday.co.nz /storyprint.cfm?storyID=3658392 (471 words)

	____EverySingleDay.:.v.3.:. Nobody said it was easy - feat. Angelina Jolie
		I was talking to the girls and possibly they'll make a pingao on Thrusday.
		They also believe that fer's birthday is on July7th, but I know it was on June 23rd (I know that for sure, coz I remember we were talking on lab and he said so, plus I've found some info about him on icq, and his bd was marked as that day)
		the bad thing about that pingao is that it'll be a big one because it'll be a birthday of another friend of ours of the next building, so many ppl will be there and I wont be able to talk to him in private.
	br.geocities.com /jenni_aloha (1631 words)

	Wild West Photo \| TrekNature
		The grass is Pikao (or Pingao) the Golden Sand Sedge.
		And there on the sand dunes, the pingao remains to this day.
		The children of papa-tu-a-nuku however intervened in the story, and they harvested the pikao and the kakaho and united them in the tukutuku panels on the walls of the wharenui.
	www.treknature.com /gallery/Oceania/New_Zealand/photo20025.htm (680 words)

	City Scene - June 2001: Eco-Village to be examined
		The Burwood-Pegasus Community Board has also done a lot of work on an Eco-village and its working party called its Eco-neighbourhood concept, Pingao.
		Its 42-unit concept project was based on four hectares in Owles Terrace, New Brighton.
		The Pingao project creates a village atmosphere and aims for social sustainability.
	archived.ccc.govt.nz /CityScene/2001/June/Eco-VillageToBeExamined.asp (318 words)

	EW Maori and the Coast
		Rare weaving materials, such as pingao, grow on coastal dunes.
		Harbours and estuaries are important breeding, nursery and feeding grounds for fish and birds such as patiki (flounder), matamata (whitebait) and kuaka (godwits).
		Local Beachcare groups plant pingao and other coastal plants.
	www.ew.govt.nz /enviroinfo/coasts/Maoriandthecoast.htm (448 words)

	Special Education \| Māori Resources
		Nga Kete Korero is a core programme of sequential early readers and support materials designed for children, from emergent to fluency stages, who are learning to read Māori.
		The four levels are Harakeke, Kiekie, Pingao, and Miro, with sublevels indicated by the five vowels in ascending order of difficulty.
		This photo-story shows a young woman and her guide dog getting on and off a bus and moving with confidence about the busy city streets.
	www.tki.org.nz:8008 /r/specialed/info/maori.php (1405 words)

	Paramount Magic Store. OLD XI'AN -Evening Glow of an Imperial City [By:Jia Pingao]
		OLD XI'AN -Evening Glow of an Imperial City [By:Jia Pingao]
		Changes a city has undergone are an important part of the history of the development of a civilization.
		The English edition has been published jointly by the Foreign Languages.
	www.paramountmagic.com /pd_old_xian.cfm (266 words)

	Canterbury's red and blacks on the decline! - Our Environment: Autumn 2000
		Katipo spiders are found mostly north of Banks Peninsula.
		They have a preference for sandy, sloping coastal habitats with sparse marram or pingao grass in which they weave small tangled webs to catch insects.
		If you can help us grow pingao grass, contact Coast Care for a pingao growing kit, phone (03) 382 1678.
	archived.ccc.govt.nz /ourenvironment/22/katipo.asp (369 words)

	New Zealand Stock Photo, Snow covered sand hills, tussock & Pingao, Masons Bay. Ernest Islands beyond., Stewart Island, ...
		New Zealand Stock Photo, Snow covered sand hills, tussock & Pingao, Masons Bay.
		Snow covered sand hills, tussock & Pingao, Masons Bay.
		Photo of Snow covered sand hills, tussock & Pingao, Masons Bay.
	www.naturespic.com /NewZealand/image.asp?id=4514 (102 words)

	New Zealand Stock Photo, Ship creek beach, with native pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) in front, South Westland, ...
		New Zealand Stock Photo, Ship creek beach, with native pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) in front, South Westland, Westland District, New Zealand">
		Ship creek beach, with native pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) in front
		Photo of Ship creek beach, with native pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) in front
	www.naturespic.com /NewZealand/image.asp?id=17368 (96 words)

	Home-Yiwu Pingao Handbag Manufacturing Co. Ltd-handbag,, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Company name: Yiwu Pingao Handbag Manufacturing Co. Ltd
		Our products collection includes casual bag, backpack, shoulder bag, waist pack, tote bag, cooling bag, cosmetic bag, wallet, briefcase etc.
		Yiwu Pingao Handbag Manufacturing Co. Ltd is a professional supplier of handbags.
	www.hxgift.cn /Web/pgbag/English/index.aspx (63 words)

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