07/10/2025
🌿 “Think Like a Forest” — a must-see NZ short documentary 🌿
I just finished watching Think Like a Forest by Pure Advantage, and wow — this feels like one of those films that shifts your inner compass.
What the film nails:
💚Interconnected benefits. Forests are not just “nice to have.” They stabilize soils, purify water, sequester carbon, support biodiversity, buffer climate extremes.
💚Economics + nature can align. The film explores how forest restoration should be seen as an investment, not a cost — an emerging “nature market” where ecosystem services have real value.
💚Kaitiakitanga & regenerative vision. It weaves in Māori worldview and guardianship (kaitiakitanga). The proposed national initiative Recloaking Papatūānuku aims to restore >2 million hectares of native forest and wetland over 30 years.
Pure Advantage
💚Voices + lived knowledge. Sam “The Trap Man” Gibson guides us through forest places. We hear from farmers, ecologists, iwi leaders — diverse perspectives on aligning production and restoration.
Why you should care / share:
This isn’t just a film — it’s a call. It reframes forests from passive “nature to preserve” into active systems we can learn to think and act alongside. It helps us see that ecological health and human prosperity don’t have to be at odds.
If you care about climate resilience, indigenous stewardship, or just plain beautiful landscapes, give this a watch.
Think Like a Forest is a film about Aotearoa’s native forests, the threats they face, and a bold plan to restore them. Guided by Sam the Trap Man, it explores the Recloaking Papatūānuku initiative to protect and regenerate over two million hectares of native bush.
