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NGĀI TIPU TAKETAKE
indigenous plants of Aotearoa
growing nature in neighbourhoods;
your eco-region native planting guide.
plant for your
local ecosystem.
Nature and biodiversity are essential to our wellbeing.
Planting for your local environment helps build healthy ecosystems that provide food and resources, purify air and water, and regulate climate.
As kaitiaki of this land, we each have a role to play and it begins in our own backyards. Every native plant you put in the ground strengthens the resilience and vitality of the living world around us.
“The biodiversity of Aotearoa, New Zealand is essential to our culture, identity, and well-being.
Our biodiversity – the whole variety
of native plants, animals, microorganisms, the genes they contain, and the ecosystems they create is unique to New Zealand and irreplaceable.”
Ministry for the Environment & Stats NZ. (2019)
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