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TB and pest management on Molesworth
Ivor Yockney and several wild sentinel pigs were (slightly reluctant) film stars in TVNZ's 'Country Calendar'. Last autumn, Country Calendar were filming the huge Molesworth cattle muster an Continue Reading...
Field techs talking about field work
Generally all field technicians agree on the best and the worst aspects of field work: Best bits — Getting to work in the outdoors in wilderness areas that few others ever get to, helicopter flig Continue Reading...
Managing multiple mammalian pest populations
Wendy Ruscoe (Landcare Research) says that despite spending approximately $110 million per annum on the management of mammalian pests, they are still here and still threatening biodiversity conser Continue Reading...
From Spain to Central Otago
Carlos Rouco Zufiaurre is investigating possum ecology in dryland ecosystems Since arriving from Spain last January, Carlos has been working with Grant Norbury, James Smith, Roger Pech a Continue Reading...
Field work goes ahead, whatever the weather
Everyone's favourite sort of field trip ... smack in the middle of a cold weather bomb, as “wind, snow, horizontal sleet and hail, wind, rain, and wind wind wind. Scientist Grant Norbury s Continue Reading...
Volcanic Dunes of the Rangipo Desert
Mark Smale of Landcare Research says such dunes rare - one of only a few such ecosystems in the world. The wild and ever-changing Rangipo Desert is not really a desert because it has ample rain Continue Reading...
Antarctic soils
Jackie Aislabie is a microbiologist and an Antarctic expert; she leads a research programme on on soils and micro-organisms that live in that Continue Reading...
Acclimatising in Antarctica (Tanya O'Neill)
Tanya O'Neill says "Superbly uneventful is how I would describe this year’s flight South. Smooth to the point where I found myself thinking ‘surely something is about to go wrong?’ Continue Reading...
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 Continue Reading...