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Life in forest fragments

Forest Fragment Management Series

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The Waikato region is a large and diverse landscape that was once mostly covered in native forest. Most of our forest patches are small scattered fragments of the original tracts of forest. 

This factsheet describes the types of vegetation in our native forest fragments  and the animals that live in them.

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Life in forest fragments [PDF, 811 KB]