Auckland
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 2:06 pm – Posted by Mandy | 2 Comments
I am a hand-on-my-heart Wellingtonian. So much so, that I will quickly jump to its defence if anyone grumbles about the place. Of course, the most common complaint concerns the weather, and I have my rebuttal down pat. The wind has a teasing, playful quality; the sea is choppy & lively, and Wellington’s most infrequent visitor - the sun – always makes a dazzling appearance when it arrives. As the late poet Lauris Edmond once wrote, ‘This is a city of action, the world headquarters of the verb’. To complain about Wellington’s weather is to misunderstand its very raison d’etre, I implore..
So it aggrieves me to say this, but Auckland’s arboreal life is alot more vibrant and varied than Wellington’s.
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Published in: Auckland, General
Tags: ark in the park, Auckland, hihi, new zealand
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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 2:32 pm – Posted by Guest | 3 Comments
For those of us lucky enough to live in the Waitakere Ranges with its awe-inspiring forests and thunderous coasts, communing with nature tends to be part of our everyday lives.
The many ways in which we do relate to the natural world and its other inhabitants has always been a source of fascination for me.
As a film-maker one often finds the best stories are on one’s own doorstep, in this case the activities of of local inhabitants, human and otherwise in our well loved local park, the Cascades Kauri Park in the Bethells valley.
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Published in: Auckland, General
Tags: ark in the park, Auckland, banding, catching, film project, robins, transfer, waitakeres
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:12 am – Posted by Tom | 1 Comment
As I come to the end of nearly two thoroughly enjoyable years observing New Zealand’s wildlife through my camera, I have become aware of many startling differences between my experiences of nature in Aotearoa and my home in the UK, and how these differences affect our perception of the natural world and the future for our wildlife.
The endangered NZ Dotteral, Photo: Tom Marshall
Since I flew in over the Southern Alps in late 2007, I have relished the chance to genuinely explore and discover New Zealand’s wildlife in a way rarely possible in the UK – by simply visiting the local shoreline, taking a tramp in the high country or by getting eye-to-eye with wading birds in the mud of Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
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Published in: Auckland, General
Tags: beach, endangered, nz dotteral, protection, vehicles on beaches
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Fri, 01 May 2009 9:44 am – Posted by Guest | 2 Comments
Hauraki island branch secretary, Sue Fitchett
I am a self-described tree lover and so the proposed changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) have left me, and many others fearing for our notable and second generation trees.
Trees, as poet Ruth Fainlight wrote, are those witnesses, huge mild beings/who suffer the consequence/of sharing our planet and cannot/move away from any evil/we subject them to
The changes are effectively a costly opt-in system, whereby each and every tree will need to be scheduled, either as a grove or individually (In Auckland City the cost could be in the vicinity of $200 per scheduling) in order to receive some protection.
Banning tree protection rules, as the Government plans to do, will leave trees in 700 of Auckland’s 800 parks unprotected, and give landowners the ability to cut down any tree that is not in a reserve or listed in a district plan schedule.
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Published in: Auckland, General, Native plants and forests
Tags: arborist association, resource consent, RMA, trees
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 9:22 am – Posted by Marina | 4 Comments
Welcome to Forest & Bird’s weblog. Like Forest & Bird itself, our weblog will touch on just about everything native and New Zealand: our native plants, animals, our wilderness areas and environment, whether they are on land, in our lakes, rivers and oceans.
We welcome your thoughts and ideas about how we can all contribute to helping preserve our precious – and vulnerable – natural heritage.
Standby for opinion pieces, diary-style web-logs, videos of our projects and much, much more. Just watch this space!
Published in: Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Climate Change, Energy, F&B National, Fresh water, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, High country, International, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marine and Coastal, Native land animals, Native plants and forests, Northland, Otago, Regions, Southland / Stewart Island, Taranaki, Threats and Impacts, Top of the South, Topics, Waikato, Wellington, West Coast
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