1Dec 29, 2008
On the holiday beach and around your favourite café tables, there’s a conversation that needs having. It’s about the future of nature and other minor details affecting you and your only planet. It seems increasingly odd, that the best hours of the best days of the best years of many environmentalist’s lives have been absorbed […]
2Dec 23, 2008
After receiving our training from the four friendly DOC rangers on the island my 2 compadres and I are now fully fledged kakapo supplementary feeders. On the first day we each did a round of feeding stations alone with one ranger. This was a perfect introduction to the feeding and cleaning protocols and also to […]
3Dec 19, 2008
I write this diary from the Sealers Bay hut, Codfish Island, Whenuahou. I have just arrived on this beautiful 1396 hectare nature reserve which lies to the north west of Stewart Island, in the most celebratory fashion. I was flown in on a fixed wing light aircraft across the Foveaux Strait which homed in on […]
4Dec 16, 2008
Guest Blogger: Colin Ryder, Wellington Branch The announcement of Wellington’s marine reserve off the coast of Island Bay earlier this year was met with a sort of exhausted ‘hurrah’ from advocates at Forest & Bird. We were elated, but somewhat battle-weary given that we had fought for this marine reserve for 17 years. I can’t remember […]
5Dec 10, 2008
How often do we hear that children have lost the ability to learn about life because they are wrapped in the cotton wool of bureaucratically-safe environments? Play areas must be free of dangerous objects, games must be safe, and children must be wrapped up warmly if outside in cold weather, fully protected from the sun’s rays […]
6Dec 4, 2008
Christmas can be a real blast, but it can also be hell on the planet. There are the tonnes of wrapping paper dumped in landfills (or worse), countless food miles clocked up and greenhouse gases emitted, and a whole tonne of plastic junk gifts that you’ll hide in the back of the cupboard. Here’s a […]
7Dec 2, 2008
Guest Blogger, Tom Marshall, Photographer Over the last few years I’ve developed something of a soft spot for photographing wading birds. You can’t miss those lanky legs and knobbly knees (something I can relate to) and amazing beaks from the delicacy of an avocet, to the almost ludicrous mandibles of the spoonbill. Although the myriad […]
8Nov 27, 2008
So Solid Energy nearly got a face full of custard … fired at them by environmental protestors at their AGM. Solid Energy has been literally trying to put the fires out over recent months on many fronts and this latest embattlement is symptomatic of an industry that hasn’t got a future. Problems with their safety […]
9Nov 25, 2008
For good reason, Jaws has been spoofed ad nauseum. And just when you thought this line of film had breathed it’s dying breath conservationists with cameras have taken up the mantle, bringing new levels of absurdity to this genre. The recently awarded Save our Seas Foundation video is just the ticket, driving home the point […]