Budget includes boost to measures to protect the threatened kauri.
Groups fighting a kauri-killing disease are relieved the Government has committed millions more dollars to the battle, allaying fears that research funding would dry up.
This year's Budget includes $25 million over the next four years to boost measures to protect the threatened kauri. Kauri dieback disease has infected thousands
of trees since the soil-borne scourge, for which there is no known cure, was first detected in 2008.
After being found in trees in Northland, the Waitakere Ranges and Great Barrier Island, the disease was last month detected in the kauri-rich Coromandel.
The Budget provides $10.9 million for Department of Conservation operational costs, $10.7 million for capital costs for tracks, boardwalks and hygiene stations, and $4.9 million for the Ministry of Primary Industries for research and management tools.
Vivienne McLean, of Coromandel's Kauri 2000 movement and interim chairwoman of a forum responding to the region's new incursion, said it was "good news" that DoC was going to get the resources it needed.
