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The magazine that celebrates our country in all its diversity — its people, places and wildlife. nzgeo.com

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New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · 5d

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

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.

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · 26d

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

For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase for wild ice begins.

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · 29d

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 ...

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Aug 24

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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Rebekah White @rebekahwhite.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Feb 16

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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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · Feb 2

A year on from Cyclone Gabrielle ... this is an absolutely stunning piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social and Lottie Hedley @nzgeo.bsky.social
www.nzgeo.com/stories/cycl...

After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives | New Zealand Geographic

After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Feb 2

Twelve months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, many people are still fighting to return home. Our investigation: www.nzgeo.com/stories/cycl...

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Dec 22

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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Rebekah White @rebekahwhite.bsky.social · Dec 18

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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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · Dec 14

@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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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Dec 10

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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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · Dec 8

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

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Dec 4

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?

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 30

If octopuses are colour-blind, how do they camouflage themselves?

And why do cuttlefish make better lab subjects?

The mystery of the colourblind cephalopods | New Zealand Geographic

The mystery of the colourblind cephalopods

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 30

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...

Kina-nomics | New Zealand Geographic

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 29

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...

Land of the bright white light | New Zealand Geographic

Land of the bright white light

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 29

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.

The grief bird | New Zealand Geographic

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thank-you!

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 28

Earlier this year, we published an investigation into trawling:

New Zealand vessels drag trawl gear across nearly 100,000 square kilometres of our seafloor every year. Can we make bottom trawling better? Or should we ban it altogether?

A clean sweep? | New Zealand Geographic

New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · Nov 28

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.

The seafloor stores carbon, but trawling releases it | New Zealand Geographic

The seafloor stores carbon, but trawling releases it