Hinewai Reserve
Private nature reserve where native forest regrows through gorse, with tracks and dozens of waterfalls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch, begins with a spiny yellow-flowered shrub that generations of New Zealand farmers tried to burn, spray and bulldoze off these hills. It turns to September 1987, when a trust bought a block of worn-out farmland and handed it to the botanist Hugh Wilson, and to the neighbours who read about his plan in the local paper. Best heard on a track with gorse on either side of you.
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