lost forests

When humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems …

Amateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts …

Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the …

One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, …

When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …