forests

Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …

On March 21, 2011  I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey.  Me and Erol, my indispensable …

One of the endearing memories I have during my PhD was working on the banks above the Kawarau River near Cromwell (Central …

One of the endearing memories I have during my PhD was working on the banks above the Kawarau River near Cromwell (Central …

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 …

The lowlands south of Dunedin (New Zealand), used to be almost impassable wetlands. The local Maoris were incredulous when the first Western …

Part way along the Kawarau River between Cromwell and Queenstown (Central Otago, New Zealand) is a feature known to Maori as ‘Whatatorere’ (Kaumatua …

When an entire landscape loses its forests, it can be so complete that most of us would have no comprehension of what …

New Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …