The weather around Wanaka, and the broader Otago Lakes area of New Zealand has gone slightly biblical. New Zealand’s National Institute of …
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New Zealand ecology
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Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me. When I left my …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Lost Forest of the Ashley River, Canterbury, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA gem in the heart of Christchurch is Riccarton Bush (sometimes called Deans Bush). It’s a patch of original kahikatea forest, just a …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Once a Vast Forest – Motatapu Track, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleEarly on a cool Sunday morning I sipped my latte outside Relishes Cafe, Wanaka, and thought the immediate view could be better. …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Hoop Pine fossils – dry rainforest in New Zealand’s Miocene
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Matai- vanquished giant of New Zealand’s dry forests?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Attack of the Forest-Killing Fungi (Kauri and the Elm Decline)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …
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