Hinewai Reserve

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Hinewai Reserve is a private nature reserve on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand.

It started off as a 109 ha block bought by the Maurice White Native Forest Trust in September 1987 and is now comprised of 1050 ha of gorse and regenerating native bush.

The reserve was completely forested in pre-human times but was reduced to 4% when it was established as a reserve. The transformation from open pasture and gorse to native vegetation has occurred rapidly.[1]

Hugh Wilson, a botanist, currently manages the reserve.

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  1. ^ Wilson, Hugh (1994). "Regeneration of native forest on Hinewai Reserve, Banks Peninsula". New Zealand Journal of Botany 32: 373-383.