New Zealand ecology

We’ve all read Dr Seuss’s ‘The Lorax’ – right? The Lorax spoke for the trees. In the book, Truffula Trees are seen …

Travelling from Sydney up to Brisbane, through the lowlands, across the wetlands, crossing rivers, seeing tree ferns – I can’t help thinking …

In my Fifth Form year at Dunstan High School, Alexandra, my Biology Teacher was Peter Child. He retired shortly afterwards, and as …

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 …

We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a …

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