Story: Dune lands

More links and websites

• Active Sand Dunes in NZ

  Landcare Research information on NZ sand dunes including how they are formed and their endangered status.

• Dune Restoration Trust

  The Dune Restoration Trust is focussed on community involvement in the restoration of the coastal ecology in New Zealand.

• Inventory of New Zealand's Active Dunelands

  A paper written by Mike Hilton, Ursula Macauley and Ralph Henderson investigating active dunes in NZ, published by DOC.

• Pikao (or pingao) the golden sand sedge

  The Department of Conservation’s web page on pīngao.

More suggestions and sources

• Bergin, D. O. Rehabilitation of coastal foredunes in New Zealand using indigenous sand-binding species. Science for Conservation 122. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 1999.
• Cockayne, Leonard. ‘Report on the dune areas of New Zealand plants, their geology, botany, and reclamation.’ Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives 1911, C-13.
• Hilton, Mike, and others. Inventory of New Zealand’s active dunelands. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 2000.
• McKelvey, P. J. Sand forests: a historical perspective of the stabilisation and afforestation of coastal sands in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1999.
• Sale, E. V. Forest on sand: the story of Aupouri State Forest. Wellington: New Zealand Forest Service, 1985.
• Seitzer, Stefan, and Arno Gasteiger. ‘Dunes: the waterless sea.’ New Zealand Geographic 47 (Jul–Sep 2000):18-41.