Kiwi in the Murchison Mountains

Up to 94 per cent of young wild kiwi perish, and although adult birds are...

Funding research in New Zealand

I have been in the research industry for 38 years. All of that time has...

Waves

Among the paintings currently hanging in Te Papa is a striking celebration of waves by...

The haemorrhaging knowledge economy

KiwiAir: Congratulations, Captain Kirk. After searching through 65 top applicants from around the globe, we...

Queen Street trees

Auckland’s Queen Street, the coun­try’s most iconic retail thorough­fare—a ribbon of asphalt surrounded by jostling...

New Zealand vs Australian English

Until the close of the 20th century, New Zealand English was regarded as an offshoot...

To the centre of the earth

In the summer of 1885 William Lar­nach, the newly appointed minister of mines, boarded a...

Tararuas

In our Wellington house, one window frames a view of the Tararua Range. During summer,...

Pine forest natives

Plantations of exotic timber trees, especially pines, are looked on with disdain by many as...

George Adams, old but not out

A short, weathered, Tolkienesque fig­ure tries the door of a decrepit shed at the bush’s...

Gold

The onset of fever is quick. The bug goes straight in and buries deep. It...

Weevil upheaval

Not seen since 1922, Hadramphus tuberculatus (the Canterbury knob-bled weevil) has been largely for­gotten—a category...

What’s the story?

The common Jibe of the dance to any­one who seems to know anything is that...

Oi mate

This is no typical conservation story. The grey-faced petrel/great-winged petrel/North Island muttonbird/oi is not endangered—not...

New horizon

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably not...

They shoot horses—don’t they?

Under the heading “Animal Pests” on the Department of Conservation’s (DoC) website, and sandwiched be­tween...

Yellow-bellied visitor convalescing

One of New Zealand’s more unusual hospital patients has poisonous fangs and enough venom to...

Abel Tasman

The search for Terra Australis Incognita and the discovery of Zeelandia Novia....

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