Conservation
Alison Ballance retrospective 5: kauri dieback disease
Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 feature on kauri dieback disease and talks to Nick Waipara to find out how the northern kauri forests are coping with the disease in 2021.
AudioOur Changing World for 29 April 2021
Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 story about kauri dieback disease and gets an update of the disease's impact in 2021. Audio
Calling Home: Flick Taylor in Laikipia County, Kenya
Flick Taylor is currently living in a tent on her and husband Sam's plot in Laikipia County in Kenya while the family build a new home. It's a world away from her early upbringing on a farm in rural… Audio
Alison Ballance's world is changing
With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme. Audio
Alison Ballance's world is changing
With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme.
AudioAlison Ballance's world is changing
With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme.
AudioMore seabirds for Mana Island
The story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies. Audio
More seabirds for Mana Island
The story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies.
AudioCollaborating to move freshwater species
University of Canterbury freshwater biologists are using a joint mātauranga Māori and western conservation science framework for their work translocating species. Audio
Collaborating to move freshwater species
University of Canterbury freshwater biologists are using a joint mātauranga Māori and western conservation science framework for their work translocating species.
AudioWeka: a wily but wary bird
Ornithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives. Audio
Weka: a wily but wary bird
Ornithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives.
AudioCalling Home: Jane Va'afusuaga in Vailima, Samoa
Jane Va'afusuaga fell in love with Samoa the first time she visited in the late 1980s. She vowed to return one day but never imagined that she would eventually marry a Samoan Matai and end up living… Audio
Tahu Mackenzie in full flight
Last year Tahu Mackenzie was named Otago Person of the Year and Educator of the Year at the Otago Hall of Fame inaugural awards. Tahu is the educator at Dunedin's Orokonui Ecosanctuary. She's also one… Audio, Gallery
Growing dune plants a challenging passion
Each year Jo Bonner and the team at Coastlands Plant Nursery in Whakatane grow 300,000 spinifex and pingao plants for dune replanting at beaches around the North Island. Audio
Growing dune plants a challenging passion
Each year Jo Bonner and the team at Coastlands Plant Nursery in Whakatane grow 300,000 spinifex and pingao plants for dune replanting at beaches around the North Island.
AudioOur Changing World for 28 January 2021
Measuring the value of a community garden and the challenges of growing dune plants for restoring sand dune communities. Audio
A study in survival - how native fish climb
Freshwater Hydro-Ecologist Dr Eleanor Gee talks to Kathryn about how the ability to climb ramps helps native fish to navigate tricky waterways. Scientists at Hamilton's NIWA laboratory are observing… Audio, Gallery
DOC aghast at dogs and cats being taken to pest-free islands
Pet owners are increasingly bringing pet cats and dogs to pest-free islands, where they can wreak destruction on fragile native animals, conservation rangers say.
Rare dolphins once 'most abundant'
An analysis of historical records by expert Gemma McGrath shows now-dwindling native dolphin species were abundant and ranged through much of NZ's waters until recently.
