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Local resident Malcolm Warnes was irritated to watch the situation worsening and no work undertaken to stop the ongoing erosion. “Those 400-year-old trees are falling down because there has been nothing done for years by the people who are responsible for the care and guardianship of that forest. “It is a precious gem that is slowly being destroyed, and I personally think that is entirely unacceptable,” Warnes said. Scott Hammond/Stuff This tōtara is undermined by ongoing riverbank er...

Scott Hammond/Stuff Old growth patches, like those at Marlborough’s Onamalutu Scenic Reserve, are the last bastion of ancient forests, says a botany professor. An ancient forest with a lineage that stretches back to when New Zealand was part of the supercontinent Gondwana has been losing trees to erosion for years. Podocarp trees at Marlborough’s Onamalutu Scenic Reserve have been lying in the Ōhinemahuta River since July, but they are just the latest to fall victim to the riverbank’s o...