Mind reading

Much of our social life has to do with figur­ing out what is going on...

Miniature mountains

Sarah Hillary, principal conservator at Auckland Art Gallery, has spent much of her life examining,...

A weather eye

Robert fitzroy is famous to most as the captain of the Beagle during the voyage...

Motueka-Golden Bay

After Motueka, state highway 60 leads toward Abel Tas­man national park and Takaka Hill....

Upper Whirinaki Hut

Whirinaki Forest Park, 2 days...

Pigeon

In 1896 a New Zealand Herald reporter travelled with the Northern Steamship Company to Great...

Up Cranky Creek

As far as mythical generalisations go, New Zealand has two contradictory ver­sions of itself. There’s...

Good to bee back

Our colonisers sent us bumble­bees, and now they want them back. The extinction of the...

Who’s paying?

Getting approval for the introduc­tion of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is a complicated and expensive...

Leaping with lizards

When the great Otago skink recov­ery programme began at macraes Flat in 2004, the populations...

Editorial

I knocked together a chicken coop in our backyard last week­end and populated it with...

Huskies

Growing out of New Zealand’s links to Antarctica and our dependence on huskies for the...

Cook Islands

Flashes of dazzling colour and swishing grass skirts are the postcard portrait of an exotic...

Southern right whales

The southern right whales of the Auckland Islands were once reduced to a population that...

Deadly cargo

Minute and lethal, the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu killed more than 50...

Riding Giants

Catching the monstrous swells that roll around the hip of the Catlins Coast, big-wave surfers...

Dinosaur lady, Joan Wiffen

In 1979, we had just moved to Brisbane from Sydney to take a position at...

In The Field

In production of this issue our gallant contributors braved frightening cold, giant waves, microscopic viruses...

Shearwater confit

The mutton bird harvest in Foveaux Strait is one of New Zealand’s oldest food-gathering traditions—radiocarbon...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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