Since the Immigration Act of 1987, migration from the Indian subcontinent has swelled Auckland’s suburban population, bringing with it a cultural cargo of music and dance that has coloured urban life and changed what it means to be a New Zealander....
How deep do seabirds dive, and how fast do they go? Faster and deeper than we realised, according to a new study of New Zealand petrels. Answering these questions is crucial to preventing bycatch: tens of thousands of seabirds killed each year when they go for bait attached to commercial fishing longlines. Birds get hooked […]...
The previous issue of New Zealand Geographic featured a story about rock hounds—people who fossick in rivers looking for interesting specimens. Several readers wrote to say they would have liked to see more of the rocks up close. Photographer Andy Macdonald became a keen rock fossicker himself while working on the story, and made ‘portraits’ […]...
“Read this!” Erick Brenstrum thrusts a page into my hand just as my bum hits the sofa. It’s an account of a storm in 17th century England. Wild weather turned a coastal dune into a sand storm, a whirling blanket that smothered a landowner’s estate, burying 18 homes, ending the livelihood of its tenants and […]...
