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Conservation Week under Covid

Conserving such spaces seems more important now than ever. And that's the message of a group of people trying to save a copse of mature native trees from the chainsaw in my own suburb of Avondale, where stands of native trees are a rarity.

Children holding cutouts of truffula trees listen to a reading of Dr Seuss's "The Lorax" in Avondale.

The standing and the fallen: Avondaleans are trying to save what's left of a rare copse of native trees on Rosebank Peninsula.

Kennedy gets into the Lorax spirit.

The restored Cornwallis wharf, a feature of the Manukau Harbour for almost 100 years.

Mossy rocks under a canopy of pohutukawa on Cornwallis beach.

Pohutukawa roots seem glued to a rock face at Cornwallis beach.

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