Wilderness

AN ECOLOGICAL WASTELAND

We took our kids for a long weekend adventure up the Ahuriri River, a girlfriend and I wandering to Hagens Hut where the children revelled in crossing streams, climbing giant boulders and roasting marshmallows over the fire.

That was fun, but there was a serious side to our adventure, and I went home thinking about the lack of ecological diver-sity in

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