Introduced trout are steadily killing off native fish....
The blight that caused the Irish potato famine has been discovered by using leaves pressed inside old herbaria....
Rats see the world differently...
Human geography is concerned with the interaction of humankind with the planet, for better or worse. While producing this issue the editorial team found themselves considering that interface in two realms: on land and under the sea. The Three Kings Islands were inhabited by Maori for centuries, and visited by the first European explorer to sight […]...
The clatter of a postie’s bike on the pavement, an outstretched hand, the tumble of mail into the dark cradle of a letterbox…...
While carbon-fibre catamarans hydrofoil around America’s Cup courses, the roots of New Zealand yachting were formed around another prize. The Lipton Cup—donated by Sir Thomas Lipton, who made no fewer than five challenges for the Auld Mug—actually stands two inches taller than the America’s Cup, and this year at least, attracted more entries. It has been the prestige […]...
From Moeraki to Karitane, and inland to the edge of the Maniototo, East Otago is a seldom-traversed province where the rich legacy of whaling and gold persists. Today, mining and agriculture shape the fortunes of this land of rolling hills and rose-gold beaches....
The Biblical tale of three magi with gifts has an ecological equivalent at the Three Kings Islands, 53 kilometres north of the New Zealand mainland. There, swept by the cool waters of the Tasman Sea, life springs in profusion. This year, five agencies voyaged to the islands to explore this unfathomable biological wealth....
Editor-at-large Kennedy Warne considers the place of poets as stewards of landscape...
Photographer Jocelen Janon on understanding your subject...
