ECONOMY: AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, LIVESTOCK AND FISHING Agriculture and livestock occupy only 6.9% of the active population and cover about 6.5% of GDP (2007), however they remain an important part of the New Zealand economy, also because most of the national wealth...
Triassic and Jurassic formations can be followed continuously throughout the North Island, from the Bay of Plenty to Wellington. During the long orogenetic stasis which lasted from the Cretaceous to the Miocene erosion deeply attacked the emerged areas: the enormous quantity...
Environment From the floristic point of view, New Zealand is home to numerous endemic species; the plant formations, however, remained intact only in the South Island, while in the North one radical changes were made by man to the environment. The...
The population of New Zealand has a majority of New Zealanders of European origin (74%), a part of Polynesians (7.4%), Asians (11.8%) and an important Maori community (14.9%). The Maori, are mainly concentrated in the North Island, especially in the statistical...
CULTURE: GENERAL INFORMATION Although the English colonization has upset many balances, compromising the very survival of the Maori and altering their lifestyle, social organization, private and communal ritual practices, the twentieth century saw a clear recovery in demographic and cultural terms....
ECONOMY: GENERAL INFORMATION The world recession, which since the 1970s has hit – where more and less – practically all developed countries, has also reached New Zealand, slowing its rate of economic development, triggering inflationary processes and increasing the number of...
ECONOMY: INDUSTRY AND MINERAL RESOURCES The industries, which compete for approx. 23.6% to the formation of national income (2007), mainly concern the processing and transformation of agricultural and livestock products. However, a broad diversification of production activities is underway; Thus various...
New Zealand, inhabited by Maori tribes – whose settlement dates back to around 1000 AD. C. – was long deserted by the Europeans due to the aggressiveness of the natives. At the end of the century. XVIII only a few small...
The war made New Zealand feel that its destiny was now linked to a close collaboration with Australia and the United States, hence the agreement between the three states called by their initials ANZUS (1951), and the application in 1947 of...
In the twenties of the century. XX the literary ferment resumes; the interest in native traditions returns (H. Guthrie Smith, 1861-1940), the work of the writers of twenty years earlier is reworked, Mansfield’s lesson and the new English and American poetic...
