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NZ ON SCREEN To celebrate NZ’s unique natural taonga, Peter Hayden has curated a highlights collection from three decades of NHNZ productions. Aotearoa’s landforms and its magnificent menagerie of natural oddities – birds, insects, trees like nowhere else on the planet – are showcased in 15 award-winning titles. From Discovery Channel and David Bellamy, to [...]

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A thousand pohutukawa trees are being made available for planting on the Coromandel as part of efforts to get more of the iconic New Zealand trees flowering on the peninsula. Regional council Environment Waikato and the Project Crimson Trust are partnering up for the project which will see the 1000 pohutukawa distributed to Coromandel landowners [...]

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Monday, 21 December 2009, 11:12 am Press Release: NZ Plant Conservation Network Climate change increases value of Kiwi native plant The golden sand sedge – pingao – has won the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network’s 2009 favourite plant poll, and could be a valuable defence against climate change effects. The pingao topped more than 100 [...]

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Discover the hidden world of Wellington’s wild orchids: media releases Pterostylis banksii, one of our most common orchids Wellingtonians are being asked to keep their eyes peeled for their extraordinary, diverse and often cryptic native orchids when they venture into the outdoors. Acknowledging the Wellington region as one of New Zealand’s “orchid hotspots”, the Department [...]

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Greater Wellington – Mauriceville community planting day Mauriceville village will be further enhanced next month with the planting of native trees and shrubs during a HondaTree Fund Community Planting Day. The HondaTree Fund has provided the funding to purchase 300 trees and shrubs for this year’s event along with mulch and fertiliser. The event has [...]

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Greater Wellington – Rural living field day 20 August 2007 Greater Wellington Regional Council, AgResearch and Wellington City Council are hosting a rural living field day in Ohariu Valley for anyone interested in developing their rural lifestyle block. Learn about landscape design, including what to plant, where and why and you can also take home [...]

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Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, a book that took author and painter, Audrey Eagle more than 50 years to complete, is the winner of the 2007 Montana Medal for non fiction. The two-volume work contains more than 800 hand painted plates; images of every single New Zealand tree and shrub, some of [...]

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Spotting ‘little spots’ on Wellington’s wildest night out Wellington’s wildest night out just got even better! Throughout July and August, we are running a special two-for-one deal on our unique nocturnal tours. Conditions apply. Take a tour by torchlight through New Zealand’s native forest at night. Your guide will help you to spot morepork, tuatara, [...]

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Scoop: Research looks at native trees, carbon emissions rimu and miro in the whakatikei river valley Are our native trees adding to or reducing New Zealand’s carbon emissions? That’s the question Rotorua scientists are hoping to answer with one of their current research projects. Two projects investigating native trees and carbon emissions are underway at [...]

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lovely day at the wellington botanical gardens, a camera , some albinoni … Scoopit!

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Photo Contest – National Wildlife Magazine MORE THAN 4,000 images were submitted during the past year to National Wildlife’s 35th annual photo contest. Selected by the editors on the basis of originality and execution, the winners appear here.

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