by Mels Barton | Apr 14, 2026 | News
The Kauri Rescue team has been treating an area of kauri dieback infection in Kauri Park, Birkenhead with phosphite and creating a buffer around the infected trees to contain the infection. This work has been a fantastic collaboration with Auckland Council, Te Kawerau...
by Mels Barton | Apr 14, 2026 | News
The Kauri Rescue team has been back to the Te Piringa area of the Cascades in the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park to reassess the health of the 60 big taonga kauri trees that we treated with phosphite in May 2024. Two years into this trial of applying various phosphite...
by Mels Barton | Mar 17, 2026 | News
Kauri Rescue has just received a small grant from Northland Regional Council to help us expand our support to Northland landowners with kauri dieback problems. We are grateful for NRC’s support, and hope it marks the beginning of a long...
by Mels Barton | Mar 15, 2026 | Events, News
Learn about our local Kauri and how to protect them. Join us for an informative session where Dr Mels Barton will demonstrate how to understand the health of your Kauri, look after them and protect them for the next generation. This session will be held outdoors,...
by Mels Barton | Mar 15, 2026 | News
The Kauri Rescue team had a very productive trip to the Coromandel where we treated a small pocket of kauri dieback infection on a huge private property in Kennedy Bay. Really hopeful that we have got in early enough to contain it and prevent further spread. Huge...
by Mels Barton | Mar 14, 2026 | News
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. We were really pleased to see how stable the majority of the trees were...
