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Celebrating 10 years of planting
Kids Greening Taupō’s 10th birthday on Saturday (September 20) at Spa Park was an opportunity for those who helped establish the organisation and those running it now to muse on how it had survived and its success today.
Restoring the cloak of Tauhara
The lower slopes of Mt Tauhara is getting a lot aroha with hundreds of children planting 6000 trees as part of a huge restoration project.
Turning the town green
Thousands of people are out planting trees on Arbor Day today in Taupō, with heavy rain last night at least providing good soil moisture for new plantings.
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