replanting grass

• New Zealand a Knockout

... in 1980, its rehabilitation included replanting and then repopulation with some of New Zealand's r...Our hike began in tussock grass slowly wending our way up the side of Mount Tongar...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• February 21, 2011

• Natural Decompression

'I'm almost sorry we came here first," said my sister as we sat on the deck of our bure, surrounded by deep-green foliage and sipping from sweating stubbies of Fiji Bitter, "because it can't get any better than this. The five-star Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort (www.fijiresort.com) is in Savusavu on Vanua Levu. Air Fiji flies there out of Nadi; the resort's shuttle will pick you up at the Savusavu airport. Meals are included in the price of the bure (there are separate family and adult dining rooms) and there are special wedding/honeymoon packages available. There's an excellent Bula Club for kids, with nannies/buddies supplied for the children free of charge. The lovely town of Savusavu is a FJD$7 cab ride away. Minimum length of stay is three nights. The four-star Castaway...

... and a kayak trip out to the mangrove replanting project; on rainforest appreciation day, there's a... torch-lighting ceremony, as two men clad in grass skirts pound rhythmically on hollowed-out logs and...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009