Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains

Mongabay
Apr 14, 2026, 4:26 pm187 ptsTrendingTop
RAGLAN, Aotearoa New Zealand — Imagine a forest floor so thick with juicy, crunchy purple tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa) fruit in summertime that you can’t cross it without skidding and falling. Birds so fat with toromiro (Pectinopitys ferruginea) berries that they explode when you shoot them. Pigs that don’t…

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