Tags / biodiversity
Future freedom from bovine TB
Graham Nugent (Landcare Research) says it is amazing there are now less than 80 TB infected deer and cattle herds in New Zealand compared to over 1,700 in 1994. Bovine TB is a bacterial disease t Continue Reading...
Restoring Lord Howe Island, Australia
John Parkes (Landcare Research / Invasive Species International) says that Lord Howe Island was one of the last places on earth to be colonised by people. It was only discovered by humans in Continue Reading...
Feasibility study to save a jewel of biodiversity - the Juan Fernández Archipelago
Al Glen (Landcare Research) reflects on the islands that inspired the Robinson Crusoe stories The Juan Fernández Archipelago, 700 km west of mainland Chile, is a biodiversity hotspot with my Continue Reading...
Frost Flats - a naturally rare ecosystem
Mark Smale says frost flats are one of the signature ecosystems of the Volcanic Plateau. They were created after vast quantities of pumice were deposited during the titanic eruptions that shaped Continue Reading...
Fred the Thread
In 2003, Corinne Watts was standing in a Waikato domed peat bog (as wetland scientists sometime do) contemplating the stems of giant cane-rushes Sporadanthus ferrugineus. She chanced upon lovely 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...
National cycleway through Pureora Forest Park
Mark Smale of Landcare Research used (very) old maps of (even older) tramways to help plan the route. The Department of Conservation has been asked to assist with establishing the national cyclewa 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...