WAITAKERE RANGES - AUCKLAND’S WILD WEST

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Year
1993
Reference
F200881
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1993
Reference
F200881
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Short
Duration
00:20:00
Production company
Wild South Enterprises, TVNZ
Credits
Producer: Christopher Howden
Producer: Russell Garbutt
Director: Max Quinn

This is a Regional Parks film produced for Auckland Regional Council by Wild South Enterprises and Television New Zealand.
A pākehā man hosts and narrates this film about the Waitakere Ranges. The footage features a group of children on a field trip, and the following subjects: Auckland city, its geological features, rainfall and water cycles, rainforest ecosystem, kauri trees, bird life, geckos, frogs, snails, night walks, wētā, glow worms, Australian possums, regenerative planting of forests and sand dunes, wood carving, local iwi, the cave at Whatipu, the Orpheus maritime disaster, gannet nests, recreational activities.