It's often said that whichever culture and environment we grow up in is the one we consider as the norm. Whilst my great-grandparents we...

I've published a few posts concerning citizen science, from the active participation in conservation-orientated projects here in New Z...

The widespread installation of wind turbines over the past three decades has generated a new ecologically unfriendly phenomenon, namely wild...

It's odd how some of these posts get initiated. For this particular one, there were two driving factors. One was passing a new house on ...

If there's a single type of news story that's almost guaranteed to generate widespread sympathy across the British Isles it is one c...

A recent report here in New Zealand has raised some interesting issues around data interpretation and the need for independent analysis to m...

I've previously discussed the notion that children who spend more time outside in natural surroundings are more likely to have improved...

I recently signed a petition to reduce by-kill in New Zealand waters by installing cameras on all commercial fishing vessels. Forest and Bir...

I recently wanted to visit the Ark in the Park, an open sanctuary in the Waitakere Ranges west of Auckland that uses constant predator contr...

Whilst some other countries - the UK, for example - have dozens of general and specialised wildlife surveys undertaken by members of the pub...

Like other northern regions of New Zealand, the summer of 2017 saw Auckland residents facing City Council requests to conserve water, as wel...

Although I've already discussed the dangers of using biological control in various countries, a couple of recent events suggested I sh...

My elder daughter recently adopted a Sumatran tiger. Not literally of course, but an Auckland Zoo package bought as a birthday present, with...