Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Web Manager, Mandy Herrick We touched down on the moon in 1969. We travelled 11kms to the sea-floor in 1960. We peered into living cells and discovered DNA in 1951. Moon-travel, deep-sea exploration, cell-research, we’ve done it all, and yet, we still know very little about the unexplored communities that live […]
Guest blogger: Forest & Bird’s conservation advocate Quentin Duthie Forest & Bird is concerned about a proposed “Game Animal Council” that would take over management of four of the largest and most tasty pest animals in New Zealand – deer, pigs, thar and chamois. We think it’s essential that management of these pest animals and […]
Blogger: Forest & Bird’s South Island Regional Officer, Debs Martin. Back in the mid 2000s, after hearing rumours of a possible hydro-scheme, I was assigned the (tough!) task of visiting the Mokihinui River. A few months later, I was set adrift on a raft, and found myself thundering over and around gigantic boulders tossed into […]
Blogger: Web Manager for Forest & Bird, Mandy Herrick Our admiral butterflies have had a hard-time of late. In an ongoing operation to eliminate any plant that is prickly, or stingy we’ve pretty much obliterated their youngin’s only food source: nettles. Slowly, over the years, our admiral’s nettle-filled grazing ground has been replaced with a vista of grass, […]
Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Web Manager, Mandy Herrick In the weekend, over 80 people braved the wild weather to welcome two endangered kokako into their new 2000 hectare home in the Waitakere ranges. Six kokako were released into the park late last year, so this release will help boost numbers to create a self-sustaining population. This release is part of a broader […]
Last week, I met up with frogologist Dr Phil Bishop down at Otago University. In this video he explains how our frogs are going to be affected by the government’s mining proposals. Mandy
Blogger: Forest & Bird’s (newest) Conservation Advocate, Nic Vallance. Gidday everyone, I’m Nicola (Nic) Vallance, and I’ve just taken up a role as Conservation Advocate based in Christchurch, working on the Mackenzie campaign, mining, and pest control . I’ve just finished my first week, so it’s all pretty new, but I’m quite excited to be […]
Blogger: Web Manager for Forest & Bird, Mandy Herrick A few years back, I lived in China. Yes, for two whole years, I sucked back lungfuls of their toxin-laced air, drank their increasingly polluted waters and ate their chemical –riddled fish. And unnoticed by me (I was an entertainment reporter), day by day, I think […]
Blogger: Web manager, Mandy Herrick Key’s remark that there is ‘too much hysteria over mining conservation land’ is laughable, given that now he is pursuing a hysterical witch-hunt to find the government leak Hysterical. It’s an interesting word, and one that is much-loved by politicians looking to silence an issue. According to my trusty online […]