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Resurrecting Wellington's Flowers of the Underworld
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:26:20
Publish Date: 2025-11-10 16:00:00
Description:

Until late 2024, nobody had seen te pua o Te Rēinga “the flower of the underworld” in the Wellington region for more than a hundred years. A chance discovery of a small struggling population has kick started a race to protect the plants and help them return.

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Learn more:

  1. First Up interviewed Avi Holzapfel about Te Pua o Te Rēinga in 2024
  2. In 2020, OCW looked at efforts to resurrect a transplanted population of Te Pua o Te Rēinga at Zealandia.
  3. Graeme Atkins is also one of the driving forces behind an effort to help the ngutukākā plant return to the wild, plus the 1769 Garden – a living library of rare local East Coast native plant species.

Guests:

  • Graeme Atkins (Ngāti Purou, Rongomawahine)
  • Barrett Pistoll – Greater Wellington Regional Council
  • Avi Holzapfel – Department of Conservation
  • Rhys Mills - Ngā Manu Nature Reserve
  • Bart Cox – Wellington City Council

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