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The significant variation of average weather conditions becoming, for example, warmer, netter, or drier over several decade or longer. an increase in the earth's average temperature. rising sea levels shirking mountain glaciers accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the artic and shifts in flower plant blooming times. 

cowrie trees

Kari are among the world's might lest tree's growing to over 50m tall with trunk girths up to 16m and living for over 2,000 years.

kaitiakitange

 A New Zealand Maori term used for the concept of guardianship for the sky the sea and the land.