Coromandel

The rights of freedom campers to park-up anywhere on the Coromandel Peninsular is being argued in the High Court in Hamilton. Audio

More now the hundreds of hectares of a Coromandel forest which have been closed to stop the spread of kauri die back disease. Audio

A disease which has killed thousands of kauri trees over ten years has spread to the Coromandel, where part of the Whangapoua forest has been closed to try to contain it. Audio

A seaside settlement on a picturesque white sand spit attached to the Coromandel Peninsula. It's a new, modern tourist town with fewer than 350 permanent residents but around 17 hundred baches or… Audio

From Otama Beach in the north to Tairua in the south, Coromandel's artists are at home to visitors. Audio

One of the newest annual festivals on the block is Chronophonium in Coromandel. It brings together local indie bands, eclectic visual art, and a green ethos, to create a boutique community feeling… Audio

Winiata Harrison, an 81-year-old Coromandel master carver and kaumatua chats with Cosmo Kentish-Barnes about his life and work from his carving house on the families Harataunga farm. Audio

Once a thriving gold mining town, Kuaotunu is a beautiful coastal village located 15kms north of Whitianga on the Coromandel Penninsula. Audio

New Zealand's only narrow-guage mountain railway, the Driving Creek Railway near Coromandel Town. Audio

Artist Rei Hamon talks to Alwyn Owen about his early life, his Maori ancestry, and feelings for the bush which influenced his famous drawings. Audio