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Skyfall. For decades, New Zealand has been insulated from highly pathogenic avian flu—the disease that has devastated poultry flocks and waterfowl around the world. But now, the virus has evolved to take down mammals and seabirds, and that dramatically raises the chances of it reaching us. For some of our native species, this virus could be ...
Inside the Land March - New Zealand Geographic
Te Rōpū o te Matakite sets out from Te Hāpua on September 14, 1975. Te Hāpua was the birthplace of then-Minister of Māori Affairs Matiu Rata. The proposed march united a wide cross-section of urban and rural Māori, but support was not universal. Rata felt it would undermine his efforts from within the government, and sought to head it off.
What went wrong and what are we doing about it? - New Zealand …
In old-style Waitangi Day speeches, people used to boast that New Zealand was unique: the only British colony established through a formal agreement with the inhabitants. This was wrong. Britain made its first colonial treaty in 1609. In West Africa alone it made 10 treaties similar to the Waitangi Treaty.
Taranaki—the shadow speaks - New Zealand Geographic
Taranaki last erupted 249 years ago. After White Island and Ruapehu–Ngauruhoe–Tongariro, which vulcanologists treat as a single entity, Taranaki is the third most likely volcano in New Zealand to erupt. It’s all about odds, Vince said: “Taranaki has erupted intermittently for …
Our future, by the numbers | New Zealand Geographic
Nov 5, 2024 · For the last financial year (Apr 1, 2023 – Mar 31, 2024) New Zealand Geographic’s income looked like this: Account. Income. Reader subscriptions (print & digital) 520,000. Media production (content produced with funding) 520,000. Advertising (mainly print ads) 310,000.
Skyfall | New Zealand Geographic
Skyfall. For decades, New Zealand has been insulated from highly pathogenic avian flu—the disease that has devastated poultry flocks and waterfowl around the world. But now, the virus has evolved to take down mammals and seabirds, and that dramatically raises the chances of it reaching us. For some of our native species, this virus could be ...
Lost | New Zealand Geographic
A feat of survival, and a record: it’s the longest anyone has been lost in New Zealand before being pulled out alive. Stuff. On the first of February, 1980, Le Fleming’s parents waited for his plane at Palmerston North’s little airport. They watched passengers emerge, greet their …
Tupaia - New Zealand Geographic
Tupaia was a man of many talents: high priest, artist, diplomat, politician, orator and celestial navigator. After fleeing conflict on his home island of Ra’iātea for Tahiti, he befriended botanist Joseph Banks, and joined the onward voyage of James Cook’s Endeavour. Arriving in New Zealand in 1769, Tupaia discovered he could converse with ...
The Kelp - New Zealand Geographic
Jul - Aug 2022. South of Dunedin, a huge kelp forest stretches for 20 kilometres underwater between Brighton and Taieri Mouth. It’s known to locals simply—reverently—as The Kelp. Sunshine dances through the forest in shafts of dappled light, illuminating gleaming schools of trumpeter, moki the size of car wheels and schools of greenbone.
Matariki rising - New Zealand Geographic
There’s a new holiday on the calendar: Matariki, the Māori new year. It’s the first indigenous celebration to be formally recognised in any colonised country. It brings with it a focus on the resurgence of the maramataka, the Māori environmental calendar. And it might just be the best thing that’s happened to New Zealand’s environmental conscience in years.