Story: Te ngahere – forest lore
Page 8 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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Māori environmental knowledge
The results of NIWA’s research into aspects of traditional environmental knowledge according to the Ngāti Pare tribe of Coromandel and Te Whānau-a-Apanui of the eastern Bay of Plenty.
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Māori values and native forest (ngahere)
From the Landcare Research site, this factsheet gives information about Māori and their relationship with the forest (PDF, 2.12 MB).
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Traditional ecological knowledge and ethnobotany
This chapter is from a report on mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori knowledge) prepared as part of the indigenous flora and fauna claim before the Waitangi Tribunal (PDF, 85 KB).
More suggestions and sources
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Best, Elsdon. The forest lore of the Māori. Wellington: Te Papa, 2005 (originally published 1942).
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Crowe, Andrew. Which native tree?: a simple guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees. Auckland: Penguin, 1999.
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Crowe, Andrew. Which native fern?: a simple guide to the identification of New Zealand native ferns. Auckland: Viking, 2001.
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Crowe, Andrew. Which native forest plant?: a simple guide to the identification of New Zealand native forest shrubs, climbers and flowers. Auckland: Viking, 1994.
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Riley, Murdoch. Māori healing and herbal: New Zealand ethnobotanical sourcebook. Paraparaumu: Viking Sevenseas NZ, 1994.
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Salmond, John T. New Zealand native trees. Auckland: Reed, 1994.
