Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

2019
30m
8.0

8.0/10

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Documentary
Overview

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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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Happen Films Quatro Trust
Production Countries
New Zealand
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date June 28, 2019
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt10560270
Website Visit Site

Cast

Hugh Wilson
Hugh Wilson

Self

Tricia Hewlett
Tricia Hewlett

Self

Bob Masefield
Bob Masefield

Self

Key Crew

Antoinette Wilson
Producer
Nick Tucker
Writer
Antoinette Wilson
Writer
Jordan Osmond
Writer
Quatro Trust
Executive Producer
Antoinette Wilson
Director
Jordan Osmond
Director

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