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Do you have environmental stories to tell? Contact Us to learn about becoming an OurFuture contributor.Bogging adventures in New Zealand part 2: South Island
Another dividing line swishes by, another town holding a world of interesting diversions is avoided, another intriguing landscape is no more to us than a speculative conversation. The South ...more
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Bogging adventures in New Zealand part 1: North Island
A week into our fieldwork trip to study New Zealand's peat bogs and the North Island is done! To say our trip has been something of a whirlwind so far would probably be leaning towards under ...more
Three Kings Islands — 56 km but an eon from New Zealand
The Three Kings Islands is a small archipelago only 56 km off the northern tip of New Zealand. They are the sole emergent part of the Three Kings Ridge, the remnants of an island arc that formed dur ...more
Fieldwork for new peat bog research imminent!
It is now less than a week until we will board a plane in London for the long flight to New Zealand to meet up with colleagues and undertake the fieldwork for our new project investigating New Zeala ...more
A new approach to biodiversity protection: local scale to landscape scale
All over New Zealand, there is a huge groundswell of interest in pest control for biodiversity protection. Small, isolated patches may not provide enough habitat to allow native species to survive ...more