Story: Te ngahere – forest lore

More links and websites

• 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.

• Science and mātauranga Māori

  Landcare Research looks at the important role traditional indigenous knowledge – mātauranga Māori – plays in contemporary resource management in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Best, Elsdon. The forest lore of the Māori. Wellington: Te Papa, 2005 (originally published 1942).
• Crowe, Andrew. Which native tree?: a simple guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees. Auckland: Penguin, 1999.
• Crowe, Andrew. Which native fern?: a simple guide to the identification of New Zealand native ferns. Auckland: Viking, 2001.
• Crowe, Andrew. Which native forest plant?: a simple guide to the identification of New Zealand native forest shrubs, climbers and flowers. Auckland: Viking, 1994.
• Riley, Murdoch. Māori healing and herbal: New Zealand ethnobotanical sourcebook. Paraparaumu: Viking Sevenseas NZ, 1994.
• Salmond, John T. New Zealand native trees. Auckland: Reed, 1994.