Waitangi Tribunal theme U - Land with All Woods and Waters [pdf, 1010 KB]
...lowland forests; koaro, inanga, piharau, and tuna migrate into estuaries from the sea and travel through lowland swamps into mountain terrains. Sustained harvests depend, therefore, on tracts of forest and wetlands retaining the integrity to recover from human and natural disturbance. Maori achieved this as long as forests and swamps predominated over the portion of land burnt for fernland and cleared for agriculture and settlement. From 1840, however, the Crown’s objective was to remove the...