In spite of a widespread belief that their race and culture are extinct, Moriori people have survived on the Chatham Islands and are undergoing a cultural revival similar to that of their mainland ...
Plantations of exotic timber trees, especially pines, are looked on with disdain by many as alien monocultures, an unpleasant accommodation necessary to protect precious indigenous forests from the ...
Barely seven per cent of New Zealand is land. The rest of it, the wet bit, covers four million square kilometres. In 2016, photographer Richard Robinson won a Canon Personal Project Grant that enabled ...
Hailing from Australia, where it is most common in Melbourne, the Gisborne cockroach was first recorded in Gisborne in the 1960s, but is thought to have arrived earlier as it was noticed in Auckland ...
Right now, says the Government, it’s OK to swim in just over 70 per cent of the country’s rivers and lakes. By 2040, it aims to make 90 per cent of rivers and lakes “swimmable” on the back of ...
Within minutes of entering a classroom, James Te Tuhi has captivated his young audience with tales of Pingao, how she was placed on the dunes by her father, Tangaroa, to nurture her whanau, the ...
In the dusk of a summer’s evening the smoke from barbecues and campfires rises into a darkening sky full of brilliant stars. Centre stage is the Pot, with a line of three stars forming the bottom of a ...
The south coast of the South Island is not an area commonly associated with gold-rushes, but in the 1880s it was the scene of New Zealand’s most distinctive Chinatown. The Round Hill goldfield and ...
Once thought to be an insect which turns into a plant, the vegetable caterpillar is one of the more bizarre oddities in New Zealand’s fauna. In 1763, an English scientist claimed to have discovered an ...
The ozone layer is healing, because chlorine dispersed into the atmosphere is slowly disappearing, according to a study by NASA. The ozone hole over Antarctica has formed every year in spring since ...
For nearly two centuries, the origins of a Spanish whaler and trader who founded a dynasty on the east coast were a mystery. Manuel Jose’s descendants are New Zealand’s largest family, and have ...
Sea lions are coming home to the coasts of southern New Zealand, returning to their former territory after more than 300 years in exile. The big question is: Can we make room for them? A curious New ...
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