Conservation
Gillian Candler's Nature Heroes - conservation for kids
Gillian Candler is a writer who takes her love of nature and conservation to create children's books that teach kids about native wildlife, and how to help protect it. She's released a new book -… Audio, Gallery
Controver-seas: reservations about marine reserves
Science communication student Amy Archer, from the University of Otago, investigates recommendations from the South-East Marine Protection Forum for marine reserves on the Otago coast. Audio
DoC Staff on a 1080 'hit list'
Picture and personal details of Department of Conservation staff are being shared online by those opposed to 1080. Incidents paint a picture of some protesters who will stop at nothing to halt use of… Audio
A man alone: Travelling the world solo by motorcycle
Chris Eden was diagnosed with incurable lymphatic cancer in 2005. Then he came up with a simple(ish) plan: ride a motorcycle solo across, round or through every continent in the world. So far he's… Audio, Gallery
Tracking Pacific golden plovers around the world
A satellite tracking programme is revealing, for the first time, where New Zealand's Pacific golden plovers or kuriri migrate to breed. Audio
Our Changing World for 14 November 2019
Predator-free Miramar Peninsula kicked off in the middle of the year and aims to get rid of rats and stoats. It is part of a wider to goal to make Wellington a predator-free capital city. Audio
Tracking inner city rats
Victoria University researchers are radio-tracking urban rats in Wellington city suburbs to find out how large their home ranges are, to help improve predator-free trapping efforts. Audio
Our Changing World for 7 November 2019
Radio-tracking urban rats in Wellington city suburbs to find out how large their home ranges are, and the chemical element tantalum. Audio
Exotic garden plants a 'ticking time bomb'
Lincoln University's professor Philip Hulme has been awarded the Hutton Medal for his work on how non-native plants, including garden ornamentals, become invasive weeds in New Zealand. He says more… Audio
Calling Home: Lorraine Cook in the Seychelles
New Zealander Lorraine Cook is a Feilding-born former DOC worker who has been working as a conservationist in the Seychelles for the past two and a half years. Audio
The Karioi Project: bringing back the grey-faced petrel
A community group has been trapping predators on Mt Karioi near Raglan for ten years. Now the rare grey-faced petrel, whose population was in serious decline, is on the gain. Audio
Numbats and woylies recovering from predation to near-extinction by feral cats
Australia's numbat and woylie populations verged on extinction, until conservationists realised feral cats were picking them off.
Kākāpō population hits new high of 213 birds
The youngest kākāpō chick has passed 150 days old, bringing the number of living juveniles to 71 and the overall kākāpō population to 213, in ep 24 of the Kākāpō Files. Audio
Detector Gadget the conservation dog
Detector Gadget is a dog with a job. She is a conservation dog trained by her handler Sandy King to sniff out rodents on predator-free islands. Audio
Our Changing World for 8 August 2019
Gadget is a conservation detector dog, trained to sniff out rats, and the chemical element neon is not just found in neon signs. Audio
Is it worth spending millions on saving a species?
Some of the species conservationists are trying to save seem determined not to survive. So why are we sinking hundreds of millions into trying to rescue them? Audio
Leadership 'lacking' in new conservation strategy
The government's new action plan for biodiversity involves making the country pest free by 2050, and reducing fishing bycatch of seabirds and marine mammals, to zero. But a conservation ecologist says… Audio
Goose Numbers Under Threat
The number of Greenland White Fronted geese is plummeting despite the fact the birds are protected. On Islay, a remote Hebridean island, efforts are being made to find out why. Audio
Restoring Fiordland's 'island lifeboats'
The Department of Conservation and volunteer groups, including the Coal Island Trust, are hard at work removing pests such as stoats and deer from Fiordland's many islands. Audio
Our Changing World for 25 July 2019
The Department of Conservation and groups such as the Coal Island Trust are taking pests off Fiordland islands and reintroducing rare species. Audio
