Rewilding In Action

04 - Te Ao Maori vision of Rewilding - Could the plaintive calls of Buff Weka once again be heard across the Otago Peninsula? It’s already a special refuge – for breeding penguins like hoiho and kororā, for toroa Northern Royal Albatrosses and tarāpunga Red-billed Gull colonies. In this show I chat with my guests Hoani Langsbury and Tūmai Cassidy about some of the commonalities between their Māori world view, knowledge and vision – and those of Rewilding. They tell me how the values behind Te Ao

For this inaugural episode of Rewilding in Action I travelled to Hereweka on the Otago Peninsula to hear the Rewilding Story of my guests Peter Cooke and Anna Moore. Replacing land infested by blackberry, diverse native forest has returned naturally through self-sown kanuka, a native tree species. By letting nature lead and giving it a hand only when it was needed, Peter and Anna saved their 200+ year old rimu trees. Together with their neighbours, they now share the largest area of native forest