New Zealand: Environmental Issues, Policies and Clean ...
New Zealand is comprised of a mountainous group of fertile islands a few thousand miles off the southeast coast of Australia. Originally settled by the Maori people around 800 AD, British settlers began to arrive in the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries. In 1840, the British and Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, in which the Maori ceded sovereignty to the crown while retaining ...