Island life: community-led #conservation in a #biodiversity crisis
It’s easy to imagine it can’t really be all that bad for biodiversity when you travel to places like Aotea / Great Barrier Island. The 285km2 island lies just 90km […]
It’s easy to imagine it can’t really be all that bad for biodiversity when you travel to places like Aotea / Great Barrier Island. The 285km2 island lies just 90km […]
The natural history of New Zealand’s remote Subantarctic Islands is as intriguing as the islands’ history of human endeavour. Scattered across the Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties, these remote volcanic […]
A few months ago, I took the opportunity while heading down to a conference in Wellington to squeeze in a field trip to the Mana Island Scientific Reserve. The weather […]
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, […]
Making Great Mercury Island pest free began with a casual discussion between Pete Corson (DOC) and Michael Fay (Island co-owner), in the back of a ute in 2009. With […]
It’s been a summer of a lot of travel, invariably including a number of ecological restoration projects. Rotoroa Island is truly unique. I travelled to Rotoroa Island in late December […]
In 1770, botanist Joseph Banks described the cacophony of austral bird sounds as almost imitating “…small bells but with the most tuneable silver sound imaginable…” It must have been extraordinary, […]