Some of the country’s shyest, weirdest and rarest inhabitants have stepped into the limelight on TVNZ’s new digital channel, TVNZ 6. Meet the Locals is a new series of four-minute shows featuring everything from electric fishing for our enigmatic native fish, to getting up close and personal with New Zealand’s mysterious short-tailed bats. The series [...]
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DOC goes digital intoducing- “meet the locals” tvnz6
Posted in birds, conservation, Department of Conservation, doc, ecological, environment, life, meet the locals, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, travel, trees, tvnz, wildlife, world on October 1, 2007 |
DOC takes kiwi threat seriously
Posted in bird, birds, bush, conservation, doc, ecological, environment, kiwi, life, nature, new zealand, nz, taupo, Tongariro, trees, tvnz, video, wildernesses, wildlife on September 14, 2007 |
DOC takes kiwi threat seriously (01:52) | Video | tvnz.co.nz click on image for video
bar-tailed godwits , To Alaska and back
Posted in bird, birds, dunes, godwit, Inspiration, life, nature, new zealand, nz, travel, wildlife, world on September 11, 2007 |
A record-breaking godwit known as E7 is refuelling in the Firth of Thames after having made it all the way to Alaska and back wearing a surgically implanted satellite transmitter. The female bird was the first of 16 bar-tailed godwits tagged in February by ecologist Dr Phil Battley, from Massey University, to return to New [...]
Forest understory takes off
Posted in broad leaf, bush, climate change, conservation, environment, five finger, fungi, life, nature, new zealand, river, riverstone, sustainability, trees, Uncategorized, upper hutt, valley, wellington, whakatikei, whakatikei river valley restoration on September 2, 2007 |
Whakatikei Restoration project click on images for larger ( phone camera ) versions Five finger of various variety , plus many of the broad leaf plants and smaller trees, have very much made a strong comeback, with not only seedlings quite thick on the bush floor in many places, but with many of the third [...]
Honda Tree Fund Community Planting Day
Posted in botanical, bush, climate change, conservation, ecological, environment, global warming, honda, Inspiration, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, tree fund, trees, wellington, wildernesses, wildlife, world on August 31, 2007 |
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 [...]
Rural living field day
Posted in botanical, bush, conservation, doc, environment, life, new zealand, sustainability, trees, wellington, wetland, Wetlands on August 21, 2007 |
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 [...]
Create another world in your own back yard
Posted in conservation, doc, ecological, environment, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, wellington, wildernesses, wildlife on August 5, 2007 |
Create another world in your own back yard: media releases Greater Wellington residents are offered help to transform their back yards into havens for native wildlife during Conservation Week (August 6 – 12). They’ll receive a free native plant for their garden in exchange for a weed at a weed swap at The NewDowse, 45 [...]
Lifetime’s Work Wins Top Book Award
Posted in botanical, bush, conifers, conservation, ecological, environment, fungi, life, mushroom, new zealand, nz, Photography, Tongariro, travel, trees, wetland, Wetlands, wildernesses, wildlife on August 2, 2007 |
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 [...]
Kiwi death prompts call for tighter leash on dogs
Posted in bird, birds, conservation, doc, ecological, environment, kiwi, life, nature, new zealand, nz, Stewart Island, sustainability, wildernesses, wildlife on July 17, 2007 |
Kiwi death prompts call for tighter leash on dogs: Media release A fatal dog attack on a Stewart Island brown kiwi / tokoeka has highlighted the need for dog owners to be keep their animals under control at all times. The Department of Conservation was alerted to the incident by a member of the public [...]
Sanctuary or extinction for Maui’s dolphins
Posted in conservation, doc, ecological, environment, life, Maui's, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, wildernesses, wildlife, world on June 14, 2007 |
Forest and Bird Media Release A marine mammal sanctuary is our last chance to save Maui’s dolphins from extinction, Forest & Bird says. Forest & Bird today (World Oceans Day) announced its proposal for a marine mammal sanctuary off the north-west coast of the North Island to protect the critically endangered dolphins. Forest & Bird [...]
Takahe leave island for mountain homeland
Posted in birds, climate change, conservation, ecological, environment, fiordland, global warming, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, takahe, wildernesses, wildlife on May 31, 2007 |
Scoop: Takahe leave island for mountain homeland The flightless takahe, the largest living member of the rail family, was rediscovered in the Murchison Mountains in 1948. DOC’s work to recover the species has been focussed on establishing self-sustaining populations in Fiordland and on predator-free islands. Since the late 1980s DOC has been managing takahe nests [...]
Two Dead Baby Dolphins in One Week
Posted in conservation, doc, ecological, environment, Hector's, life, Maui's, nature, new zealand, nz, South Island Hector's, sustainability, wildlife on May 18, 2007 |
Scoop: Two Dead Baby Dolphins in One Week Two baby dolphins have been found washed up dead in the space of a week, including one critically endangered Maui’s dolphin. With only around a hundred North Island Hector’s or Maui’s dolphins left in the world, any deaths are of great concern, said Department of Conservation marine [...]
Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder
Posted in bee, climate change, conservation, ecological, environment, Inspiration, life, nature, sustainability, trees, world on May 17, 2007 |
Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) » Celsias I know this won’t come as a surprise to many of our readers, nor to the many organic beekeepers that have been commenting on our posts, but there have been several reports of organic bee colonies surviving where the ‘industrial’ bee colonies are collapsing. Here is [...]
restoration day 2007
Posted in birds, bush, conservation, ecological, environment, life, nature, new zealand, sustainability, trees, wellington, wetland, whakatikei river valley restoration, wildlife on May 11, 2007 |
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Matiu/Somes Island a resort for ‘lounge lizards’
Posted in cat, climate change, conservation, doc, environment, gecko, Inspiration, life, lizard, nature, new zealand, Photography, skink, wellington on May 8, 2007 |
Scoop: Matiu/Somes Island a resort for ‘lounge lizards’ Reptiles being rescued from the perils of city life to enjoy the tranquillity of Matiu/Somes Island are to be outfitted in the style of lounge lizards sporting “ipods”. Green geckos rescued from the clutches of urban cats or raised in captivity, will be fitted out with tiny [...]
anzac day video , piwakawaka , fantail
Posted in birds, conservation, ecological, environment, fantail, Inspiration, life, music, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, upper hutt, video, wellington, whakatikei, whakatikei river valley restoration on April 26, 2007 |
Piwakawaka, the fantail music by trinity roots
Skink discovery excites scientists
Posted in bush, conservation, ecological, environment, fiordland, Inspiration, life, nature, new zealand, nz, skink, weta, wildernesses on April 21, 2007 |
Skink discovery excites scientists – New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz Hollywood has its dinosaur-infested lost islands, now one of New Zealand’s last unspoilt wildernesses can boast a few reptilian surprises of its own. The Sinbad Valley, tucked away in a corner of Fiordland, has revealed a range of weird and wonderful new species over the [...]
Amusing End To Another Successful Kiwi Season
Posted in birds, bush, conservation, doc, ecological, environment, Inspiration, kiwi, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, Tongariro, Uncategorized on April 19, 2007 |
Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua has celebrated the end of another hugely successful Kiwi season. Over the course of the 2006/07 season, 112 kiwi eggs were successfully hatched and a further 18 chicks brought in to Kiwi Encounter from the wild, leaving the operation on track to release over 120 kiwis back into [...]
some lovely flowers
Posted in bee, botanical, Inspiration, life, music, nature, new zealand, video, wellington on April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
lovely day at the wellington botanical gardens, a camera , some albinoni … Scoopit!
two kereru
Posted in bush, ecological, environment, kereru, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, valley, video, wellington, whakatikei, whakatikei river valley restoration on December 6, 2006 |
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