Biogeography & Vegetation

In the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …

Leads to New Zealand’s  ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I …

“We’ll follow these guys – they’re three local hoodlums”, This from my local guide on Omatepe Island, Nicaragua. I was sitting behind …

Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me.  When I left my …

Early on a cool Sunday morning I sipped my latte outside Relishes Cafe, Wanaka, and thought the immediate view could be better. …

I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …

Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how …

In the old days in New Zealand, you needed to add the right prefix to telephone numbers to ring the adjacent villages. Our …

At Ship Creek, just a few kilometers north of Haast, in South Westland, New Zealand, there is a wonderful boardwalk though an …

I own a little patch of bush in the Haast, on the wet, West Coast of New Zealand. It was selectively logged …