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Tuesday 16 October 2018

The fight to keep kauri dieback out of Warkworth's Parry Kauri Park

Ray Jansen speaks with John-Michael Swannix.The Kauri tree is one of the biggest/ oldest trees in the world that is going to slowly extinct if we don't do anything about the disease infecting it. This disease is called the kauri dieback, which has already spread throughout numerous parks and killed many trees. A specific park in Warkworth north of Auckland has a whole lot of kauri trees that they are trying to protect from the kauri dieback. Due to this problem, the President of the park, Ray Jensen has put broad walks and cleaning stations that help protect the park from the infection. Just like Jenny Marcroft and Mels Barton who have stated in one of there interviews about the kauri trees have said that the community should notice this, I believe that the council and the community should pay attention to these problems to stop our native kauri trees from dying of the Kauri Dieback disease/ infection. They could start by building broad walks and cleaning stations in areas where the disease hasn't spread to. This could be passed onto the government if the problem gets out of hand.