26 Mar 2025

Science: Where conservation funding falls short

From Nine To Noon, 11:47 am on 26 March 2025
The endangered Archey's frog is one of four remaining species of native frog, and the only terrestrial frog found on mainland New Zealand.

Photo: Department of Conservation

Biologist Dr Sophie Fern joins Kathryn to look at two recent studies - one that focused on over 14,600 conservation projects over a quarter of a century to find where conservation funding has mainly gone.

So which animals or plants attract funding - and which get left behind?

Another study looked at what's preying on our native frogs - with rather an icky way of finding out!

Dr Sophie Fern is a biologist specialising in conservation and natural history