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Possums in dryland ecosystems
Al Glen summarises some interesting aspects of possum research on Molesworth Station The introduced brushtail possum is a major environmental and agricultural pest in New Zealand. Little informat Continue Reading...
Feral cats on Pitt Island
Feral cats, mice and ‘men’ inhabit Pitt Island, the second largest island (5,700 ha) of the Chathams. Bruce Warburton notes that, without wild cats, more native bird species might also become inh Continue Reading...
BioBlitz – getting up close and personal with biodiversity
Young and old are fascinated, horrified and enchanted by what lives in their urban backyards. People discover creatures they may never have imagined. BioBlitz brings the environment a Continue Reading...
Domed bogs (Sporadanthus)
Domed bogs are dominated by jointed, giant cane rushes called Sporadanthus. They belong in the Restionaceae family, and when these restiad species break down, they form peat (Sphagnum mosses and Continue Reading...
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...
BioBlitz 2010
Finding nature in the city – over 1500 species in 24 hours of searching, with a final tally of 1799 species! 2010 was International Year of Biodiversity, and has the tag line "b Continue Reading...
Singaporean shelling impacts
In military exercises in the 1990s, the Singaporean Army shelled parts of the army land on the Central Plateau ... they don’t have room for that sort of thing in Singapore! Mark Smale and hi Continue Reading...
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...
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...