Bay Of Plenty

We visit Maketu in the Bay of Plenty. It's a small town of around thirteen hundred people, with a river, wetlands, a few historic buildings and some walking tracks. Audio

The first of a two-part interview with Mr A J Parks - who in 1886 was a 17-year-old timber mill worker at Rotoiti - recalling the Mt Tarawera eruption nearly 70 years after the event. DCDR73-TK7… Audio

The second of a two-part interview with Mr A J Parks - who in 1886 was a 17-year-old timber mill worker at Rotoiti - recalling the Mt Tarawera eruption nearly 70 years after the event. DCDR72 (Sound… Audio

Ten years after the event, Jack Perkins assembles a group of Edgecumbe residents to relive the experience, and trace its effects not only on the landscape but on their own lives. The result is a… Audio

The Maketu-Ongatoro Wetland Society has an award-winning restoration project underway on Maketu Spit Audio

Kennedy speaks to us from Te Urewera National Park. Audio

A special feature on environmental monitoring in the Rena Recovery programme, and the role of volunteers in the clean-up Audio

One-hundred-and-twenty-six years ago this Sunday, just after midnight June 10 1886, the earth shook below the feet of villagers living in Te Wairoa on the shores of Lake Tarawera. After the… Audio

In the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puke, a new memorial has been unveiled. It bears the names of fifty locals the town was previously unaware served in the First World War - the reason they're there now… Audio

The kiwifruit industry has been in the news a lot because of the vine killing bacteria PSA v. There are some new kiwifruit varieties which growers are now seeing as a bit of saviour. Country Life… Audio

We're off to Rotorua Museum with museum director Greg McManus. Audio

Greg Brownless has a diverse CV, which includes school teaching, working as a Contiki tour guide in Europe, and a serving on his local city council in Tauranga. He then started his own… Audio

The seas around Astrolabe reef and the role of a ship's chart plotter. Audio

A day in Whakatane. Audio

It's taken more than 100 years to complete Rotorua's iconic Bath House building. Audio

Scientists have found remnants of the world famous White Terraces, which disappeared under Lake Rotomahana in the eruption of Mount Tarawera 125 years ago. The team identified part of the Pink… Audio

Wellington folk duo play songs from their new album 'All Mountains Are Men' joined by GNS scientist Cornel de Ronde on his search for the Pink and White Terraces. Audio

When Kereopa Te Rau was captured in Opotiki in 1871 - and later hung for the killing of a missioner - he'd been on the run for seven years. Peter Wells has been announced as the winner of the 2011… Audio

Scientists say they have found part of the famed Pink Terraces at the bottom of Lake Rotomahana. Images from an underwater robotic vehicle show cresent shaped terraced structures in about 60 meters of… Audio

There are several different versions of the creation story of the Tarawera Falls, nestled in Kawerau Forest. In He Rourou, local elder Kahu Te Rire tells stories about ancient ancestors, ghostly… Audio