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Christine Rose
Environment – Brilliant bird
When our old cat died and wasn’t replaced, the birds returned to our garden. This included a pukeko clan. I’ve loved them ever since. I...
Environment – Planning for disaster
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...
Environment – Call for greyhound racing re-think
By Christine Rose Greyhound racing is legal in only eight countries globally. New Zealand is one of them. In New South Wales, Australia, it was...
Environment – Towards sustainable consumption
New Zealand’s contribution to deforestation in the tropical rainforest habitat of orangutans was lessened this week with announcements from Landcorp and Fonterra that they would...
Environment – Where’s the balance?
The ringing in of the New Year brings speculation over what the future will bring, in both the year ahead and the longer term. For...
Environment – Time for nature
Rudyard Kipling tapped into something essential about the relationship between people and nature when he said, ‘When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy,...
Environment – Nature will have her way
These days, every storm seems to bear down with unprecedented ferocity. Extreme weather events are a regular occurrence. High seas now wash boulders onto roads...
Environment – Fishy friends
Who is a fish? Is he a pet, food or a sovereign being? Can he be all these things at once? Those were questions that...
Environment – Noxious noise
During lockdowns, the volume of the human world was muted. Traffic, aircraft, industrial and other anthropogenic noise (that is noise caused by humans) reduced. We...
Environment – Glorious wetlands
It was summer, Mahurangi camping at its best. We had kayaked to a favourite beach and had it to ourselves. We climbed green hills and...
