How to appreciate a wetland
5 ways our wetlands can be appreciated – some ideas from a circumnavigation around Rangihoua wetland on Waiheke Island during EcoFest 2024
Category Archives: Wetlands
Celebrating Our World: Through music, art and science
An insight into sharing art, science, images, and narratives at an orchestral event celebrating the natural world.
Life in the Shallows: Wetlands and their stories
When Karen Denyer, Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust was contacted by Massey University Press to write a book on wetlands in Aotearoa, there was an immediate dilemma – […]
#WCMT Citizen Science research trip: Investigating Singapore’s wetlands, butterflies and trees
The first destination on the 5-week Winston Churchill Memorial Trust-funded research trip was Singapore. It’s a city I’ve been to before – it’s a convenient stop-over en route to Europe. […]
Keynote: Exploring #CitSciNZ at #oecsk2019
This blog is an adaptation of a keynote delivered at Austrian Citizen Science Network Conference #oecsk2019. The aim of my talk was to create a context for citizen science initiatives […]
Running a successful #BioBlitz: selecting a great site, leveraging off partnerships, engaging the public, effective #scicomm … and great weather!
In May last year, I ‘won’ a BioBlitz at the Crazy & Ambitious Biological Heritage Challenge conference – all it took was a blurry selfie in front of a BioBlitz […]
Restoring #Rotopiko: bringing back the birds… including a few (thousand) unexpected ones!
Another year wraps around at Rotopiko (Lake Serpentine), an iconic peat lake complex set in farmland between Hamilton and Te Awamutu. The site is earmarked for a National Wetland Centre, […]
#Citizenscience tour #3: Nelson for #freshwater #biodiversity, #biosecurity, #BioBlitz!
We began our third citizen science projects tour at Nelson City Council (NCC), attending the Biodiversity Forum meeting. No matter how sophisticated our technology may be for communication, nothing beats […]
Life, lakes and farming: historical perspectives on a special landscape
There’s nothing I like more than having a good yarn. An idea I had, as a teenager living in Auckland, was to travel around New Zealand, exploring the landscape and […]
Lake Koromatua: One of 1000 community restoration projects
I always find it interesting to ask volunteers how many hours they estimate they’ve put into their restoration projects. Hamilton Fish & Game Assn. members, Keith, John and Murray, average […]
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