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Twenty million trees part of wide-ranging Kaipara Harbour restoration project 3 May, 2021 06:00 AM 5 minutes to read The Northern Wairoa River flows past Dargaville Photo / Susan Botting Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealand s biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million Kaipara Moana Remediation project. Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management unit, said planting the 20 million trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach. The first plantings are planned this month. They will be the start of New Zealand s biggest large-scale harbour restoration programme - across 6000sq km of land with more than 8000km of waterways. ....