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Tag Archives: National Wetland Trust

Life in the Shallows: Wetlands and their stories

April 8, 2022by Monica Peters Leave a comment

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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Science communication, Wetlands

Day 3 Sanctuaries of NZ: enhancing the efficacy of community and agency-led #conservation

August 21, 2018by Monica Peters 1 Comment

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 […]

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Community environmental restoration, Conferences & symposia, Predator/pest free, Volunteer monitoring

Running a successful #BioBlitz: selecting a great site, leveraging off partnerships, engaging the public, effective #scicomm … and great weather!  

February 18, 2018by Monica Peters 1 Comment

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 […]

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Bioblitz, Citizen science, Science communication, Science/enviro-ed, Wetlands

Restoring #Rotopiko: bringing back the birds… including a few (thousand) unexpected ones!

September 6, 2017by Monica Peters 2 Comments

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, […]

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Community environmental restoration, Island conservation, Wetlands

Life, lakes and farming: historical perspectives on a special landscape

April 8, 2016by Monica Peters 1 Comment

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 […]

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Community environmental restoration, Farming & agriculture, Wetlands

Working towards best practice for community environmental monitoring

February 23, 2016by Monica Peters 1 Comment

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 […]

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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, Indigenous culture(s), Science communication, Volunteer monitoring

He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata – the people, the people, the people

February 21, 2014by Monica Peters Leave a comment

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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Community environmental restoration, Wetlands

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Community-led biodiversity restoration, land use and citizen science are where my personal and professional interests overlap. As Director of people+science, I work on diverse projects, many of which sit at the interface between science and the public. I work in partnership with NGOs, science professionals, community members, and land managers. I draw on a broad set of skills including hands-on conservation, research, impact evaluation, governance, science communication and… fine arts. Although eclectic, together these form distinct, though overlapping lenses through which to interpret and understand our environment.

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Nothing beats a surprise rainbow offset by sun and rain #Aotearoa is a compact country... there is so much to see and contemplate even over a couple of days. Slice of #retro in @bayofplentynz #Bach weekend... morning view out to farmland/drained #wetland. Working in the #environmental sector, I mostly look at the landscape through a #conservation lens. What's missing is history - understanding the cultural layers. Popped up in my graphics feed this morning: an image I took years ago of insect riddled leaves juxtaposed with others used as stencils... from the bewildering, extraordinary colonial juggernaut @pittriversmuseum #paperwork Monday... rainy weather is the perfect time for admin. Cue much coffee drinking... Reminded of drinking a powerful syrupy brew in #Laos some years ago... Light. Making the most of a Sunday morning. From yesterday's brief morning escape up to the #HakarimataSummit and then along the ridge line to look at details: Out and about this morning before settling at my laptop... this caught my eye: a wood ear fungus cupping a pukatea seed...

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