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 – […]
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Day 3 Sanctuaries of NZ: enhancing the efficacy of community and agency-led #conservation
This is the final blog post for the annual Sanctuaries of NZ meeting (SONZ) and follows on from summaries of Day 1 and Day 2. Longer talks featured on Day […]
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, […]
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 […]
Working towards best practice for community environmental monitoring
Around 30 participants representing community groups, agency scientists and environmental managers joined in on a speed workshop (50 mins!) to help develop best practice for community monitoring. The event took […]
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata – the people, the people, the people
Wetlands are often referred as the barometer catchment health, but their function as barometer of the health of the people is often overlooked (or frankly, just ignored). The biennial National […]
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