Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on Wellington’s predator-free reserve Mana Island with her husband, then a DOC ranger. The couple spent two years on the island, often alone, spanning Feltham’s first pregnancy and 10 months of their baby’s life. An incredible honour, she says, but it […]...
A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a certain number of points. Some are buried in brambles, others hidden in gorges. Some, fiendishly, will lead you away from fresh water. You have 24 hours, and a map. Go....
On January 4, 2007, while visiting tarns at Carrol Hut in the Kelly Range, Arthurs Pass National Park, Dr John Flux noticed a pair of redcoat damselflies (Xanthocnemis sinclairi) apparently mating and preparing for egg-laying. He was able to photograph the whole process. The pair backed down a stem into the water, the female first, […]...
Cabbage Trees, flax and bush-clad hillsides plunging into a shimmering blue sea. Sounds like New Zealand, right? Well, not quite. This is the Republic of Georgia, and the sea in question is the Black Sea, not the Tasman....
Slaughtered by the thousand last century, then forgotten, southern right whales have been staging a quiet comeback in New Zealand’s subantarctic region. Northwest Bay in Campbell Island is one of the sites where the whales congregate each winter. Here, enduring the island’s atrocious weather and utter isolation, Ramari Stewart and a small band of fellow […]...
