Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

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TitleFools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest
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Release dateJun 28, 2019
GenreDocumentary
DirectorAntoinette Wilson , Jordan Osmond
Production countryNew Zealand
Production companiesHappen Films, Quatro Trust
Run time30 min.

The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years. Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”. Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without a doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.

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Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (Official Trailer)

May 8, 2019

Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)

Jul 27, 2019

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