by Shyam Gokarn

Created on: January 08, 2010

The benefits of living in New Zealand

You read the sign board at the airport ‘Haere Mai’ and the courteous and polite people of New Zealand are eager to express their hospitality to say ‘Welcome to New Zealand.’

Immigration is important to New Zealand and they invite committed migrants from across the globe. They respect and value the skills you bring and appreciate your capacity to add colour and diversity to their young nation.

New Zealand is a small continent, located in the Southern Hemisphere in the temperate climate zone. The natural environment of North and South Islands make the country beautiful. Its geographical location and its many outlying islands have given rise to a unique flora and fauna attracting millions of visitors from across the world. New Zealand is blessed with a substantial number of endemic marine species in all phyla (main groups), and many new ones are discovered every year making the life more interesting.

Due to this reason, New Zealand has a warmer climate, with reliable rainfall and provide for good fishing. The north Island is located on one part of a shallow continental crust that extends all the way to New Caledonia. Whereas, the South Island is located on a triangular continental crust and the Chatham Islands.

New Zealand is less busy, cleaner, smaller and a more manageable country. In my opinion, it has a more relaxed pace of life with likeable natural environment, plenty of sun and less stress. The uniqueness of New Zealand is best illustrated by looking at the globe from the south. The southern hemisphere has a very little life on it. We see all three large continents, South America, Africa and Australia, extending into the tropics. Both Africa and South America are large north-south oriented continents spanning many climatic zones and habitats. By contrast, New Zealand is the only small continent on the southern hemisphere lying in the middle of the southern temperate climate zone, representing a sizeable and important part of the entire world.

Initially, the New Zealand's main plants were ferns and conifers. For unknown reasons, the native forest of New Zealand has shown a slow growth process. Nearly all the New Zealand plants are non deciduous (do not drop their leaves in winter), producing persistent and slowly decomposing leaves. Due to this, the layers of soil under these forests are thick decreasing the speed of soil formation at the bedrock level, which in turn decreases the amount of nutrients

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