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Its second event took place on Tuesday, with a mini forest of 300 native plants established at the Ara Institute of Canterbury’s central city campus. Christchurch Foundation chief executive Amy Carter said Christchurch was the only city in New Zealand that did not have tūī.
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Canterbury is only region in New Zealand where there isn’t a common population of tūī. “We don’t know why tūī died out in Canterbury . it’s the only region in New Zealand where there isn’t a really common population. “Some breeding pairs were reintroduced to [Banks] Peninsula a number of years ago by the Department of Conservation and the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, and they’re starting to spread. But what we need is to have more food that they like to eat on this side of the hill, to bring them over from the peninsula.”
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