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
5 ways our wetlands can be appreciated – some ideas from a circumnavigation around Rangihoua wetland on Waiheke Island during EcoFest 2024
An insight into sharing art, science, images, and narratives at an orchestral event celebrating the natural world.
This blog continues a cultural journey to better understand the “how and why” of contemporary Aotearoa through an historical lens.
How do we describe cultural connection to place? This blog revisits some university essays I wrote last year by way of trying to gain a more nuanced insight into the complex relationships between land and people in Aotearoa.
This post is the first of a small series exploring the cultural terrains of Aotearoa both from a personal and academic perspective.
This third installation of 3 posts wraps up an overview of community-led conservation hubs in Aotearoa. There’s a summary of what successful ones look like and considerations for measuring their value add to conservation and communities.
The first post in this 3-part mini-series introduced the community-led conservation hub movement. This second post briefly looks at the community conservation sector in Aotearoa and what makes it so […]
Our conservation landscape has undergone some radical changes and community-led conservation hubs are thriving. I first blogged about hubs in 2020, describing what they are, how they operate and what […]
We’re now 3 years old and our 8-member committee continues to represent a cross-section of citizen science doers, movers, shakers and thinkers across the country. We’re based at universities, government […]
A few years ago, I wrote a list of all of the skills needed by community conservation groups to carry out their restoration mahi (works). Terms such as “bottom up” […]