1Dec 21, 2015
A walk along New Zealand’s coast over 800 years ago would have been very risky. You were highly likely to break your ankle as you collapsed one (or more) seabird burrows honeycombing the countryside. There were literally billions of seabirds inhabiting not only the coast but also far inland, breeding successfully on virgin land in […]
2Dec 21, 2015
Seaweeds are so much more than sushi or compost. Emma Richardson explains why we need New Zealand’s 900 species of algae more than they need us. I’m submerged in the sea when white water rises and flows around my face. All I see is foam. It’s August and I’m snorkelling around the rocks at Leisure Island (Motoriki), off the coast […]
3Dec 21, 2015
Katrina Goddard, Forest & Bird’s Marine Advocate is exploring the sub-Antarctic Islands with Heritage Expeditions. This is her diary from day 4 of the trip. This mornings wake up was rather special. Rodney, our expedition leader, called through that we had made it into Carnley Harbour in the Auckland Islands and we were attempting to […]
4Dec 21, 2015
Katrina Goddard, Forest & Bird’s Marine Advocate is exploring the sub-Antarctic Islands with Heritage Expeditions. This is her diary from day 3 of the trip. We arrived at the Auckland Islands during the early hours after a fantastic sleep – what a spectacular view to wake up to. I was up at the crack of dawn watching […]
5Dec 18, 2015
Internationally important wetlands are being polluted in the Waikato, as Al Fleming, Forest & Bird’s Central North Island Regional Manager, explains. New Zealand’s wetlands can be described as the “lungs” of land and water and support a greater diversity of native birds, fish, invertebrates and plants than most other habitats. But the Waikato River’s lungs, which are made up of […]
6Dec 17, 2015
Katrina Goddard, Forest & Bird’s Marine Advocate is exploring the sub-Antarctic Islands with Heritage Expeditions. This is her diary from day 2 of the trip. All I can say is that the taxi driver was right. Last night and most of today has been a ‘rolling goodtime’. However, I did manage to get a few […]
7Dec 16, 2015
My excitement has been building all week and when I woke this morning I could hardly contain myself as I am off on a once in a lifetime adventure to the Sub-Antarctic Islands – thanks to Heritage Expeditions. I am most excited about getting to the Auckland Islands to see the world rarest sea lion’s largest […]
8Dec 14, 2015
Forest & Bird welcomes the Paris Climate Agreement. cIt sets in place strong goals that will be impossible to ignore. Central to the agreement is a commitment by 196 countries to keep global warming well below 2 degrees and to aim for no more than 1.5 degrees warming. This means the end for fossil fuels – […]
9Dec 12, 2015
Drylands are disappearing rapidly, say Sue Maturin, Otago Southland regional manager, and Jen Miller, Canterbury and West Coast regional manager. Drylands contain some of the least protected and most threatened native ecosystems and species in New Zealand. We’ve already lost more than 70 percent of the country’s original drylands, and only three percent are legally protected. New Zealand’s dryland zone […]