Tūhoe and Te Urewera Board have announced that all huts, campgrounds, walks (including the Waikaremoana Great Walk), freedom camping areas in Te Urewera, and Lake Waikaremoana, will be closed in line ...

Lake Waikaremoana, in Te Urewera, is popular with hikers, fishers and holidaymakers. Photo: Christel Yardley / Stuff The Te Urewera Board has re-opened parts of the former National Park, including ...

Te Urewera Board and Tūhoe are moving ahead with plans to re-imagine the future of Te Urewera as the homeland of Tūhoe and a place that is accessible to all New Zealanders. This follows the High Court ...

Its board says manuhiri (guests) and Tuhoe users will be welcomed back for recreational activity, including on Lake Waikaremoana, for which access will reopen next Sunday, Waitangi Day. All tracks, ...

The Conservation Minister says she didn't sign off on removing 44 back country huts in Bay of Plenty's Te Urewera. Hundreds of locals are protesting the huts being pulled down and replaced, and Poto ...

One of the Department of Conservation back country huts in Te Urewera given historic status within the department, Waiotukapiti Hut Photo: Supplied / Pete Shaw A Tūhoe kaumātua is warning of further ...

Two years ago, when New Zealand’s government granted legal personhood to one of its 13 national parks—Te Urewera, a lush, forested landscape teeming with trails and waterfalls on the North Island—some ...

A Paeroa man has been fatally shot while hunting in Te Urewera Ranges, police say. A spokesperson said in a statement an investigation was under way after the incident in Te Urewera Ranges, Rutuahuna, ...

The Waitangi Tribunal has released part two of Te Urewera, a pre-publication report relating to the Wai 894 group of Treaty of Waitangi claims, which includes at times damning accounts of the Crown's ...

Deep in New Zealand’s vast Te Urewera forest, which is famously endowed with a legal personality, the Māori community in Ruatāhuna is working to restore and sustain its forests and way of life. Having ...

Aotearoa New Zealand acknowledges matauranga Maori in the two Acts and one Memorandum of Understanding recognising the ‘personhood’ status of three geographical regions—Te Awa Tupua, Te Urewera and ...