Kauri Rescue™ News

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.

The Kauri Rescue™ team want to extend a huge THANK YOU to our major funders who have continued to support our project throughout 2025.

The prolonged wet spring is preventing the Kauri Rescue team from starting our field season as the ground is still too wet to work safely in the bush.

Kauri Rescue was featured by Tiakina Kauri, the Government’s kauri management agency, in a recent social media post explaining the benefits of phosphite treatment.

Invasive hornets have been found in Auckland that threaten our bees.