Category Archive

Forest and Bird Keynote Speech – June 16th America’s best Idea is commonly regarded and promoted as the establishment of the world’s first National Park, Yellowstone, 140 years ago in 1872. Go there, see how good the Americans are at … Read More

Originally published on stuff.co.nz…. Some of New Zealand’s top thinkers are gathering this week to advance Sir Paul Callaghan’s vision of making New Zealand “a place where talent wants to live”. Our Future. Our environment – By 2022, New Zealand must… was … Read More

There have been times when factions of the conservation movement have been dismissed as too rabid to be taken seriously and at times that extremism ends in a situation being worse than it would otherwise have been. Japanese whaling suffers … Read More

There is a debate raging between fishing and marine protection in the Ross Sea region. Last week we took care of the myths purported by the green-necks, this week we will turn to three of the serious proposals for marine … Read More

The biology of our far south – the southern ocean, the sub-Antarctic islands, and that slice of Antarctica known as the Ross Protectorate – is changing. On our sub-Antarctic islands, populations of rockhopper penguins are down by 94 per cent, … Read More