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Wanted Alive

Past invasions of New Zealand by Polynesian and European settlers has left the wildlife of...

Colony Z

For 18 years Lance Richdale studied the Yellow-Eyed Penguins on Otago Peninsula, focusing on individual...

The Black Stilt – A Bird Surrounded by Change

Every year the black stilts in the McKenzie country have a flight on their hands...

The Black Robin – The Chatham Island Story

Fighting back from the brink of extinction, the black robin is a symbol of hope...

Lost World of the Poor Knights

The Poor Knights are a place where giant wetas and giant landsnails still browse the...

Castles of the Underworld

A spectacular look at the strange and wonderful world of New Zealand’s limestone areas. Crafted...

Wild Horse, Wild Country

The Kaimanawa ranges in the Central North Island have been home to one of the...

City Under the Sea

Cities beneath the sea; are they complex urban societies that parallel our own? In this...

Bandits of the Beech Forest

A rampaging horde of wasps spreading death and destruction across New Zealand has left scientists...

Battle for Breaksea

The DSIR and Department of Conservation marshalled their limited resources and chose the battleground –...

Snares Gift from the Sea

The Snares Islands, south west of Stewart Island, have managed to avoid the unwanted attention...

Up With the Birds

Boobies, noddies, tropic-birds, parakeets and many other bird species unknown on the New Zealand mainland...

Same Time Same Place

One animal is drawn to the same tiny patch of Antarctica at the same time...

Swan Lake

Black swans were first seen by Europeans in the seventeenth century. Before that, all black...

Kakapo – Night Parrot

The Kakapo is an anachronism in a modern world. Large solitary and flightless, it’s a...

Sealion summer

When the brief subantarctic summer comes to Enderby Island, so does a rare breed of...

Possum a New Zealand Nightmare

The Possum – a small leaf eating marsupial from Australia – is devastating the New...

Sanctuary

Kapiti Island is one of the oldest wildlife sanctuaries in New Zealand. Since the 1890s...

Pukeko

Promiscuous, incestuous and homosexual, our native swamp hen is a rather remarkable bird. At Western...

Invaders in Paradise

For millions of years New Zealand was a paradise – a lush green land that...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
Centro
Rogaining

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Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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Gull spotting

For shame

Surviving White Island

How viruses spill over

Race of the century

Bombs away

Wildfire

Minders: the kakapo caregivers of Codfish Island

To love a land

Good haul

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