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Sunday Spinelessness – Protecting the katipo
New Zealand has a pretty benign fauna. We have no snakes, no carnivorous mammals bigger than our little bats and, ever since Haast’s Eagle was the driven to extinction, the apex of our natural food...
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Conserving Don Merton’s achievements
Don Merton holding Richard Henry, an important Kakapo. Photo is CC 3.0 from here (thanks to Errol Nye from DoC) Don Merton probably saved more species from extinction than anyone on earth. If it...
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Sunday Spinelessness – Giant weta are amazing… but not the biggest bugs
I’m probably as big a cheerleader as you’ll find for New Zeland’s unique and wonderful invertebrates. So, you’d think I’d be happy to see one of our insects make the pages (or the pixels) of the The...
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Cats aren’t evil, but they are a problem
It seems Gareth Morgan has declared a war on cats. It will, I’m sure, come as a great surprise to you that Morgan’s description of cats as ruthless and sadistic killers that we must eventually purge...
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