Pureora Forest Park is a 760-square-kilometre protected area in the North Island of New Zealand. Within its rich rainforest are an abundance of 1,000-year-old podocarp trees. It is "recognised as one
Pureora Forest Park
Remains of tānekaha (Phyllocladus trichomanoides) were found at the subfossil forest discovered within the park in 1983.
The North Island kōkako is a forest bird endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is grey in colour, with a small black mask. Adults have distinctive blue wattles, earning the species the monike
A kōkako about to be released in the Hunua Ranges near Auckland