nature 156, 703-703 (15 December 1945) | doi:10.1038/156703a0

Soil Erosion in New Zealand

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A FIVE-YE ARS survey convinced the author "that New Zealand, the youngest of the British Dominions, has a soil-erosion problem of greater significance in its relation to the future well-being of the country than has any one of the older members of the Commonwealth". He estimates that more than two thirds of the occupied area suffers from man-induced erosion.

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