Hinewai Nature Reserve: 30 Years of Forest Regeneration

Happen Films · Documentary · YouTube title: Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)

Why it's here

Shared in climate and land-use threads as a vivid example of how letting land regrow can restore forest.

What it covers

Fools & Dreamers is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve in New Zealand, where botanist Hugh Wilson let gorse grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate native forest. It shows the results after 30 years and the local skepticism he faced.