Images 1 - 9: A garden and a small area of podacarp forest containing large native trees - some of which have been dated around 600+ years of age. Both areas are designated for destruction as part of a road extension and re-routing aimed at reducing pressure on the Southern motorway, and to service new residential subdivisions being built in green fields locations south of the city. A 24m-deep cut will be made through the garden site, obliterating it and a section of the motorway will be built over and within the forest area.

Images 10 - 16: Auckland's booming population and housing demands push residential developments outwards. With its unique volcanic soil, flat land and temperate conditions, Pukekohe is the food bowl of Auckland. And as one of the only regions producing year round, it contributes more than 25 percent to the country's entire vegetable revenue, despite making up just 3.8 percent of the nation's fruit and vege growing area. Growers have warnedof a spike in produce costs, job losses and a $1.1 billion economic hit, if urban sprawl in south Auckland's Pukekohe growing grounds isn’t managed - and so far neither central or local governments have indicated any interest in intervening.