Kennedy Warne
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne has gone winter tramping in the Mackenzie country and talks about how pest eradication from tropical islands benefits coral reefs. Audio, Gallery
2018 Garden Bird Survey & plastic pollution
Kennedy Warne talks to Kathryn Ryan about the results, trends and the significance of the 2018 Garden Bird Survey Also, the threat plastic pollution is posing to albatrosses. Seattle-based… Audio
Paparoa Track: a Great Walk for cyclists, too
The Paparoa Track is the tenth Great Walk constructed here and the first designed to be shared by cyclists and walkers. Kennedy Warne is in the historic West Coast town of Blackball getting a sneak… Audio, Gallery
Kūmara harvest in Auckland garden with 'big history'
Kennedy Warne observed the traditional kūmara harvest at Sanctuary Mahi Whenua community garden and food forest in Mt Albert, Auckland. Video, Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne brings us the aching beauty of peak autumn colour in Otago on the Crown Range Road from Arrowtown to Wanaka. He also discusses the US National Memorial for… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy has just spent a whistle-stop week in Australia, visiting the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary in Tasmania, Mammoths exhibit at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and 200 Treasures of the Australian… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy considers the 50th anniversaries of two tumultuous events, one in Memphis, & one in Wellington. Tuesday 10th April is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Wahine. 3rd April was the 50th… Audio
Of mice and mushrooms (& whistling grasses & white rhinos)
Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne discusses the passing on the autumn equinox including the fruiting of fungi, and the flowering of the climbing rata. Also the Antipodes Islands is now mice free and Kennedy… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne has just come back from 10 days on the road guiding a National Geographic tour group through the country, and is en route to the South Island again to report on the Paparoa… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne has been traveling around the country for the past 10 days, visiting the geographic centre of the North Island and the geographic centre of the South Island. Tour Aotearoa is… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
The fallacy of drowning islands, the case of the unstoppable mutant crayfish and New Zealand's most unwanted export. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy discusses the politics of place, as displayed in two recent ventures that have attracted both praise and criticism: a new track on Te Mata Peak and a satellite launched from Mahia Peninsula. Audio
Music, humour and a bit of love
Kennedy Warne, Te Radar, Irene Pink and Grant Smithies help us bid farewell to the year, by reflecting on the best, worst and funniest stories of 2017. Nota Bene performs Christmas songs. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy talks to Kathryn about extinction, including a recording of the extinct huia, the last laughing owl ever collected, and naturalist E. O. Wilson's book on extinction, Half Earth. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy talks to Kathryn about the two threatened species: kauri and te reo - picking up on the news of a rahui imposed on the Waitakere Ranges and the flap over reo-speaking broadcasters. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
More on Kennedy's Australian expedition, including his first-ever dive on the Great Barrier Reef -- in a place that lost half of its coral through bleaching in 2016 and 2017. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Today is Columbus Day in the Americas, or Leif Erikson Day, if you prefer, or Indigenous Peoples Day or Native American Day - the variety of names indicative of the vexations inherent in commemorating… Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne - a visit to China
China's exhibition on the history of New Zealand's national parks on display at Beijing's Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture; the inspiring Chinese sense of landscape aesthetics, and… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne talks to Kathryn Ryan about the historic agreement signed on Saturday that Rua Kenana is to be pardoned 100 years after his unjust (and illegal) arrest and subsequent trial for sedition… Audio, Gallery
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
A foray into the Red Hills, part of the Richmond Range, in Marlborough; a visionary community project in Kerikeri, Northland, to restore access to a waterfall that had fallen from memory for 60 years… Audio
