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Over 1000 trees planted today by 30 Greenpeace volunteers in a central North Island block of Landcorp land have been pulled out.
The volunteers began at 7.30am today to "re-forest" around 1600 square metres of land that had been cleared for dairy farming.
Greenpeace climate campaigner Simon Boxer said the re-planting campaign was aimed at drawing more attention to the large amounts of forestry land in the Tahorakuri Forest, northeast of Taupo, being converted to dairy farming.
But state owned Landcorp chief executive Chris Kelly which leased the land said the trees had been removed soon after the volunteers left.
"The owners of the land have taken some action, the trees have gone and as I understand it the trees are being donated to a local group," he said.
- NZPA
