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· Oct 29
We’re in this together now
Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or die.
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Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or die.
What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ecosystems, and thin out the ocean, is the weight of that loss not greater than the commodity value of the timber or tonnage of fish?
Measuring impact: Here’s the difference NZGeo makes
What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ecosystems, and thin out the ocean, is the weight of that loss not greater than...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ecosystems, and thin out the ocean, is the weight of that loss not greater than the commodity value of the timber or tonnage of fish?
Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or die.
We’re in this together now
Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or die.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or die.
Andrew Penniket and Richard Robinson have spent decades diving in New Zealand, always hoping to see a hāpuku. No joy. The giants were gone. Until this winter, when we caught wind of an extraordinary rumour…
We loved hāpuku too much. Now we have a second chance.
For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard...
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October 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Andrew Penniket and Richard Robinson have spent decades diving in New Zealand, always hoping to see a hāpuku. No joy. The giants were gone. Until this winter, when we caught wind of an extraordinary rumour…
Remember the Magic Eye books of the 90s?? Now, you can have a crack at viewing New Zealand’s native flowers in 3D. Clematis, orchid, ngutukākā, korukoru, oioi… this is a luscious, spectacular feature by @rebekahwhite.bsky.social, based on the new book He Puāwai by @theobrominated.bsky.social
Magic flora
Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Remember the Magic Eye books of the 90s?? Now, you can have a crack at viewing New Zealand’s native flowers in 3D. Clematis, orchid, ngutukākā, korukoru, oioi… this is a luscious, spectacular feature by @rebekahwhite.bsky.social, based on the new book He Puāwai by @theobrominated.bsky.social
You start flying,” says Aqua Reekie. “There’s the sound of the ice popping beneath you, and beyond that, silence.” Alexandra’s obsession with wild ice skating, documented by Becki Moss and @ellenrykers.com
Chasing ice
For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase for wild ice begins.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
You start flying,” says Aqua Reekie. “There’s the sound of the ice popping beneath you, and beyond that, silence.” Alexandra’s obsession with wild ice skating, documented by Becki Moss and @ellenrykers.com
Fangs! Leg hairs! Venom profiles! Writer @michelleduff.bsky.social and photographer @robsuisted.bsky.social take a closer look at the noble false widow, the exotic spider that’s quietly set up home in New Zealand.
Rise of the noble false widow
Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps. Biting. But Steatoda nobilis, the invasive spider now spreading in New Zealand, has an arsenal of tactics—including ...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Fangs! Leg hairs! Venom profiles! Writer @michelleduff.bsky.social and photographer @robsuisted.bsky.social take a closer look at the noble false widow, the exotic spider that’s quietly set up home in New Zealand.
A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...
Let's find a mate for Ned
One in 40,000 snails have the spiral on the left side of the shell, and they can only mate with other lefties. Can you help Ned find true love?
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August 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...
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Radio genius Claire Concannon turned my @nzgeo.bsky.social albatross story into a much cooler albatross podcast. It’s out today! www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/v...
April 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Radio genius Claire Concannon turned my @nzgeo.bsky.social albatross story into a much cooler albatross podcast. It’s out today! www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/v...
We know that some plants are less likely to catch ablaze than others. Can we use them to help slow or stop wildfires? www.nzgeo.com/stories/how-...
February 16, 2024 at 4:34 AM
We know that some plants are less likely to catch ablaze than others. Can we use them to help slow or stop wildfires? www.nzgeo.com/stories/how-...
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A year on from Cyclone Gabrielle ... this is an absolutely stunning piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social and Lottie Hedley @nzgeo.bsky.social
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After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives | New Zealand Geographic
After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives
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February 2, 2024 at 6:52 AM
A year on from Cyclone Gabrielle ... this is an absolutely stunning piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social and Lottie Hedley @nzgeo.bsky.social
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www.nzgeo.com/stories/cycl...
Twelve months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, many people are still fighting to return home. Our investigation: www.nzgeo.com/stories/cycl...
February 2, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Twelve months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, many people are still fighting to return home. Our investigation: www.nzgeo.com/stories/cycl...
Honestly, it probably has something to do with fish.
What are little blue penguins trying to tell us? | New Zealand Geographic
What are little blue penguins trying to tell us?
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December 22, 2023 at 3:04 AM
Honestly, it probably has something to do with fish.
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A quick overview from me on the latest international climate agreement we just signed up to
COP’s over. What does it mean for New Zealand? | New Zealand Geographic
COP’s over. What does it mean for New Zealand?
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December 18, 2023 at 11:07 PM
A quick overview from me on the latest international climate agreement we just signed up to
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@alexverry.bsky.social & I had fun talking with Bill Morris @nzgeo.bsky.social about our #ancientDNA mahi on takahē & moho (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), & why the #fossil record is key to informing evidence-based conservation management of these taonga www.nzgeo.com/stories/did-...
Did we put takahē in the wrong place? | New Zealand Geographic
Did we put takahē in the wrong place?
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December 14, 2023 at 9:22 PM
@alexverry.bsky.social & I had fun talking with Bill Morris @nzgeo.bsky.social about our #ancientDNA mahi on takahē & moho (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), & why the #fossil record is key to informing evidence-based conservation management of these taonga www.nzgeo.com/stories/did-...
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Even as far away as #Antarctica, the news arrived that ngutukākā is Aotearoa's favourite plant of the year! Here's my @nzgeo.bsky.social story about the quest to save it in the wild www.nzgeo.com/stories/too-...
Too tasty for its own good | New Zealand Geographic
Too tasty for its own good
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December 17, 2023 at 3:42 AM
Even as far away as #Antarctica, the news arrived that ngutukākā is Aotearoa's favourite plant of the year! Here's my @nzgeo.bsky.social story about the quest to save it in the wild www.nzgeo.com/stories/too-...
Extreme weather is revealing ancient relics all around New Zealand, and our experts can’t get to them all in time.
Palaeontologists ask for help preserving fossils | New Zealand Geographic
Palaeontologists ask for help preserving fossils
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December 10, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Extreme weather is revealing ancient relics all around New Zealand, and our experts can’t get to them all in time.
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I had fun talking to @rebekahwhite.bsky.social for this @nzgeo.bsky.social piece. Such an important message about the help we need from private collectors, the public, & tangata whenua to be our fossil forecasters so we can save our biological heritage before it is lost www.nzgeo.com/stories/pala...
Palaeontologists ask for help preserving fossils | New Zealand Geographic
Palaeontologists ask for help preserving fossils
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December 8, 2023 at 7:29 AM
I had fun talking to @rebekahwhite.bsky.social for this @nzgeo.bsky.social piece. Such an important message about the help we need from private collectors, the public, & tangata whenua to be our fossil forecasters so we can save our biological heritage before it is lost www.nzgeo.com/stories/pala...
Scientists have created a flood-forecasting system for New Zealand, but can't put it into practice without free access to MetService weather data.
We could forecast floods better. Why don't we? | New Zealand Geographic
We could forecast floods better. Why don't we?
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December 4, 2023 at 2:32 AM
Scientists have created a flood-forecasting system for New Zealand, but can't put it into practice without free access to MetService weather data.
If octopuses are colour-blind, how do they camouflage themselves?
And why do cuttlefish make better lab subjects?
And why do cuttlefish make better lab subjects?
The mystery of the colourblind cephalopods | New Zealand Geographic
The mystery of the colourblind cephalopods
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November 30, 2023 at 2:36 AM
If octopuses are colour-blind, how do they camouflage themselves?
And why do cuttlefish make better lab subjects?
And why do cuttlefish make better lab subjects?
There are just too many kina, tipping marine ecosystems out of balance. Could we solve the problem by eating them?
One start-up is betting we can. But first, they're trying to improve the flavour...
One start-up is betting we can. But first, they're trying to improve the flavour...
Kina-nomics | New Zealand Geographic
Kina-nomics
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November 30, 2023 at 2:33 AM
There are just too many kina, tipping marine ecosystems out of balance. Could we solve the problem by eating them?
One start-up is betting we can. But first, they're trying to improve the flavour...
One start-up is betting we can. But first, they're trying to improve the flavour...
Two scientists mapping New Zealand's light pollution have found our nights became a lot brighter over the past decade, reports @naomiarnold.bsky.social
Most of our public lighting is now bright blue-white LEDs, which negatively affect human and animal health. But there are other options...
Most of our public lighting is now bright blue-white LEDs, which negatively affect human and animal health. But there are other options...
Land of the bright white light | New Zealand Geographic
Land of the bright white light
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November 29, 2023 at 1:01 AM
Two scientists mapping New Zealand's light pollution have found our nights became a lot brighter over the past decade, reports @naomiarnold.bsky.social
Most of our public lighting is now bright blue-white LEDs, which negatively affect human and animal health. But there are other options...
Most of our public lighting is now bright blue-white LEDs, which negatively affect human and animal health. But there are other options...
Bitterns are so hard to find that this story took us longer to make than every other story we've published (except one).
It took a few years, but finally, @ellenrykers.bsky.social and Craig McKenzie tracked the birds down.
And yes, they always look this weird.
It took a few years, but finally, @ellenrykers.bsky.social and Craig McKenzie tracked the birds down.
And yes, they always look this weird.
The grief bird | New Zealand Geographic
The grief bird
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November 29, 2023 at 1:00 AM
Bitterns are so hard to find that this story took us longer to make than every other story we've published (except one).
It took a few years, but finally, @ellenrykers.bsky.social and Craig McKenzie tracked the birds down.
And yes, they always look this weird.
It took a few years, but finally, @ellenrykers.bsky.social and Craig McKenzie tracked the birds down.
And yes, they always look this weird.
A new study reveals that New Zealand’s huge ocean territory contains two billion tons of carbon, locked in the seafloor—but trawling releases it.
New Zealand also happens to be the only nation still trawling on the high seas of the South Pacific.
New Zealand also happens to be the only nation still trawling on the high seas of the South Pacific.
The seafloor stores carbon, but trawling releases it | New Zealand Geographic
The seafloor stores carbon, but trawling releases it
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November 28, 2023 at 10:51 PM
A new study reveals that New Zealand’s huge ocean territory contains two billion tons of carbon, locked in the seafloor—but trawling releases it.
New Zealand also happens to be the only nation still trawling on the high seas of the South Pacific.
New Zealand also happens to be the only nation still trawling on the high seas of the South Pacific.