Kauri Rescue™ News

We had an incredible week in the Coromandel treating a small pocket of kauri dieback infection on a huge private property in Kennedy Bay.

The Kauri Rescue team recently returned to a property we know very well to help landowner Mike Stanley to reassess the health of the more than 300 kauri trees he treated with phosphite in 2019.

The Kauri Rescue team recently spent a day helping Karekare landowner Richard Gray treat a large number of sick kauri. Richard has an incredible property of mature taraire, puriri and kauri forest that is completely undeveloped and runs adjacent to the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park, so it is incredibly important from an ecological point of view, and stunningly beautiful.

Our landowner treatment support work has kicked into gear for 2026 and we have been very busy since mid December delivering and demonstrating our treatment kits to landowners on our waiting list as well as running workshops with our team to support those landowners with big properties that need a bit of help like Tracey Woulfe in Makarau who has a 42 hectare farm with several bush blocks with infected kauri.

Kauri dieback is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most urgent ecological challenges. In this episode, we explore how a microscopic organism met one of our most ancient taonga species and what it has taken for science, culture, and community to respond together.

The Kauri Rescue team would like to wish you all the very best for the festive season. We hope you have a relaxing and peaceful holiday with your loved ones.

We are delighted and relieved to finally be able to start issuing kauri treatment kits to our very patient landowners after such a wet spring. Nichola and Koos were excited to get started with their treatment this week.