1Jun 25, 2014
Windthrow is a natural part of NZ’s forest dynamics of catastrophe-regeneration. Thousands of hectares are levelled every year in our public conservation land forests and have done so for millenia. It is a part of the natural forest cycle in this windy country. Yet we do not intervene to sell the fallen timber in protected […]
2Jun 19, 2014
While John Key is in the US wrangling support for New Zealand seat on the UN Security Council, Murray McCully attended John Kerry’s Oceans Conference, where the Secretary of State said the US and other nations need to take bolder steps to protect marine habitat and combat other threats. Our government talks about being world […]
3Jun 13, 2014
Wandering through much of Aotearoa’s remnant bush in 2014 can be a lonely experience. One has more chance of seeing a hobbit than a kaka or kokako, and the experience is a long way from Joseph Banks’ much repeated description of the the dawn chorus in Queen Charlotte Sound in 1770: “I was awakened by […]
4Jun 13, 2014
I cautiously peered into a gnarled puriri tree and stared eye to eye with a black petrel. I was elated – the birds were back, all the way from South America and preparing to breed, right here in my backyard. ‘My’ backyard is not mine at all, but is where my husband and I currently […]
5Jun 3, 2014
Out of a combination of sheer whimsy and curiosity, I signed myself up to become a KCC Co-ordinator last year. I had always wanted to smuggle myself onto our Kiwi Conservation Club (KCC) trips. For the past six years, I have worked as Forest & Bird’s web editor and I’d always look longingly at the […]