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The beekeepers’ four-wheel drives disappear into the countryside on the farming tracks to reach the distant apiaries near the Manuka forests. Although this tree can be found everywhere on the hundreds of thousands of hectares of community land, roads are scarce and sites for the apiaries are fought over.
©Eric Tourneret
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