150 years of keeping the past alive at the Auckland War Memorial Museum...
Throughout the country, but especially in Southland and the Bay of Plenty, cohorts of young gum trees are parading their bluish leaves across the hills. A century ago, these trees were considered the answer to our dwindling supplies of native timber, and in state plantations they far outnumbered radiata pines. But they suffered a reversal of […]...
The blast of the harpoon may have given way to the click of the camera, but whales are still the cornerstone of commerce—and the subject of many a decorative mural—in the north Canterbury town of Kaikoura. In little more than a decade, marine ecotourism has transformed a coastal backwater into an international travel hotspot....
On Wednesday May 22, a broad band of thunderstorms swept across central New Zealand, leaving destruction in its wake. Taranaki was worst hit, with hundreds of lightning strikes in 24 hours. A farmer and his wife watched from a cowshed as lightning struck the roof of their house at Tikorangi, near New Plymouth, setting it on […]...
In the largest pest-eradication operation yet undertaken in New Zealand, 11,300 ha Campbell Island was blitzed with rat poison in the winter of 2001. Helicopters, such as this Jet Ranger, buzzing cliffs in the south-west corner of the island, were vital in achieving saturation coverage of the rugged nature reserve. Although the outcome won’t be […]...
