My AccountSeabirds – Walking on water
Wed, 12 May 2021
The white-faced storm-petrel’s ability to ‘walk on water’ has earned it that colloquial name of the ‘Jesus-bird’. These small 50-gram seabirds have long legs and...
/EnvironmentGardening – Too hot to garden?
Wed, 12 May 2021
We are smack in the middle of a Hibiscus Coast drought with hardly enough water for our household needs, let alone to keep our gardens...
/EnvironmentEnvironment – Water care needed
Wed, 12 May 2021
Our streams get a hard time. A Council officer told me that somewhere between 100 and 200 kilometres of waterways lose their natural state each...
/EnvironmentSeabirds – Flesh-footed shearwater
Wed, 12 May 2021
Graceful ocean travellers While humans increasingly turn to technology to get a catch at sea, seabirds have evolved their own rather special techniques. For example,...
/EnvironmentSOSSI – Conservation news mixed
Wed, 12 May 2021
As usual these days, conservation news is mixed at local, national and international levels. The best news is that it is now five years since...
/EnvironmentEnvironment – Planning for disaster
Wed, 12 May 2021
By Christine Rose The latest earthquakes which have damaged so much infrastructure, environmental and economic value in the South Island bring focus on sustainability and...
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