Yesterday we went to The Kauri Museum:

Kauri forests once covered much of the land north of the Coromandel … Abundant with bird life and a diverse range of flora and fauna the forests lived on this landscape for 100 million years. Land clearance and logging of the ancient forest has resulted in only a small fraction of the ancient kauri remaining in the 21st century.

Kauri grow huge:

…heights of 40–50 metres (130–160 ft) and trunk diameters big enough to rival Californian sequoias at over 5 metres (16 ft).

Very long and tall Kauri plank.
Tree rings marked from 1100 when the seed probably germinated, through 1200 when Māori arrived to 1960 when the tree was cut down.

I left feeling sad about the destruction of these giants.