Photo: Photo by Rhiannon Gill/Mouse-Free Marion Project
A week ago, ex-cyclone Tam brought strong winds and rain to Northland, and also something else: strands of silk that floated in the air and became entangled on clothing and hair and any physical surface.
The culprits were tiny spiders known as wolf spiders.
Kennedy will also take us to Marion Island - one of a pair of islands known as the Prince Edward Islands - midway between Africa and Antarctica.
There, introduced mice have recently developed a taste for the largest seabirds in the world: wandering albatrosses.
And finally, as well as being lauded as a voice for the marginalised and downtrodden, a "pope for the poor," Pope Francis, was nature's pope, a voice for the Earth.
