Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)
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.
Cast
- Hugh Wilson - Self
- Tricia Hewlett - Self
- Bob Masefield - Self
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- What is Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest about?
- 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.
- Who directed Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest?
- Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest was directed by Antoinette Wilson, Jordan Osmond.
- Who stars in Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest?
- Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest stars Hugh Wilson, Tricia Hewlett, Bob Masefield.
- How long is Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest?
- Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest has a runtime of 30m (30 minutes).
- What genre is Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest?
- Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a Documentary film.
- Where was Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest produced?
- Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest was produced in New Zealand.