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Living World

Cod kingdom

Project Reef juts out from the seafloor like a shipwreck. Seaweed and sponges cling to the rock, becoming habitat for...

Science & Environment

Science on the reef

Eleven kilometres off the coast of Patea, a citizen science enterprise called Project Reef Life is working to document a...

Geography

Taking the bar

Mark “Frosty” Frost lines up the mouth of the Patea River and prepares to ‘take the bar’....

Geography

Tending the flock

Jenny Kerrisk has been volunteering at Rotokare Sanctuary three days a week for 10 years. Among other tasks, she keeps...

Living World

A bird in the hand

Ash Muralidhar and volunteer Jenny Kerrisk hand-feed meal worms to North Island robins (toutouwai) at Rotokare Sanctuary, 35 kilometres south-east...

Society

Season opening

The Waiwhakaiho runs to sea at New Plymouth—the end of a short 25-kilometre flow across Taranaki’s ring plain from the...

Living World

Fishing for conservation

On an unnamed tributary, Fish & Game field officer Allen Stancliff and ecologist Bart Jansma survey Waiwhakaiho tributary with an...

Society

Network tech

There are no less than 1400 traps forming a lethal net around the mounga—traps that must be checked and re-baited...

Geography

Deadwood

Tongues of dense bush reach out from the disc of forest that cloaks the perimeter of the national park—the country’s...

Living World

Whitewater life

Whio were functionally extinct in Taranaki until an extensive network of stoat traps enabled the introduction of ten blue ducks...
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