Last December I took the opportunity to drive the length of North Island with my Kiwi flatmate Nicole. The trip was a chance for...
As some of you might have noticed, it was Wikipedia’s birthday a week and a half ago. Ten years since Jimmy Wales and Larry...
Six posts over seven weeks may seem a lot to devote to the wrecking of New Zealand’s bird fauna. Perhaps it is, although entire...
The third stage of the extinction events I’ve been cataloguing here began with the settlement of New Zealand by Europeans, mainly Brits, after the...
No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone and there ain’t no moa’ New Zealand folk song....
Christmas and my current trip north means that I’ll be taking a break from my six-part examination of New Zealand extinctions this week. Instead...
“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the Pacific rat was the only factor in the extinction...
“I will not portray islands as outstanding natural laboratories because not many of them are natural any more.” David Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of...
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