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popular among later arrivals in the country, through exhibiting a conservationist mentality which
both questioned the unjust deforestation committed by the erroneous actions of colonists and
lamented the extinction of local flora and fauna at the hands of European species, the latter of
which was in turn reflected in his desire to protect the Maori from their own extermination. It is
this real sense of compassion and humanitarianism resulting from his enlightened liberal
approach respecting Maori culture and the environment that sets his work apart from other early
nineteenth-century publications on New Zealand.
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