Endangered Species Highlighted in Tourism Report

Scoop: Endangered Species Highlighted in Tourism Report Click to enlarge New Zealand has received the worst possible ranking, last amongst 130 countries, for its protection of threatened species, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report (T&TCR) Care for the Wild International chief executive, Dr Barbara Maas, who is currently in [...]

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New Zealand albatross making massive flights

New Zealand albatross making massive flights – New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz Three New Zealand birds are enjoying their big OE and are not expected back for years. The three northern royal albatross are being monitored as part of a Massey University PhD student’s research into their behaviour. Conservation Minister Chris Carter said a chick [...]

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DOC goes digital intoducing- “meet the locals” tvnz6

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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bar-tailed godwits , To Alaska and back

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 [...]

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Honda Tree Fund Community Planting Day

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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Dolphin protection plan – must go further

Forest and Bird Media Release The Threat Management Plan issued today to protect Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins is a good start, but must go further, Forest & Bird says. Forest & Bird Conservation Advocate Kirstie Knowles says that the Government plan’s proposals to establish five marine mammal sanctuaries and introduce a ban on set nets [...]

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How to prepare a kiwi

found this floating around the nets .. please don’t do this at home , …. with a real kiwi , fruit is ok

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Research looks at native trees, carbon emissions

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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Sanctuary or extinction for Maui’s dolphins

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 [...]

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Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder

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 [...]

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Satellite-tracking the flight of the godwit

Scoop: Satellite-tracking the flight of the godwit As the last bar-tailed godwits leave New Zealand estuaries on their northern migration to Alaska this week, Massey scientists will trace their journey via satellite-tagged individuals. more

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Tiny rare owl spotted in Peru’s northern jungle

Tiny rare owl spotted in Peru’s northern jungle – An extremely rare species of tiny owl has been seen in the wild for the first time, the American Bird Conservancy said Thursday. The long-whiskered owlet, one of the world’s smallest owls, was discovered in 1976. Researchers have caught a few specimens in nets after dark [...]

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Perspective | Futility Closet

Perspective | Futility Closet Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990 Of the “pale blue dot,” astronomer Carl Sagan said, “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out [...]

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The Most Dangerous Roads in the World

Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Dangerous Roads in the World

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tracks of sooty shearwaters

Tracks of sooty shearwaters as they make their way back and forth across the Pacific Ocean. Tracking the birds by satellite, CoML scientists found they would make a round trip of about 70,000km over 200 days in search of food, averaging 350km per day.

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Urgent action on albatross slaughter supported

Scoop: Urgent action on albatross slaughter supported   Forest & Bird supports urgent measures proposed by Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton to close the Kermadec Islands fishery to long-lining fishing after a vessel killed 51 albatrosses in a single trip.  

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National Wildlife’s 35th annual photo contest.

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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Global warming could wipe out most birds: WWF

Global warming could wipe out most birds: WWF | Top News | Reuters.com By Daniel Wallis NAIROBI (Reuters) – Unchecked climate change could drive up to 72 per cent of the world’s bird species into extinction but the world still has a chance to limit the losses, conservation group WWF said in a report on [...]

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