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 * New Zealand** has 14 national parks. The first national park was created in 1887 (Tongariro National Park). The largest park is Fiordland National Park.

Taking a long walk? http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/walking-and-tramping

Hikurangi Marine Reserve, the largest marine reserve adjoining the mainland, was recently opened near Kaikoura.

FYI: The Māori name for the silver fern that appears on the All Blacks jersey is the [|Ponga, aka Cyathea dealbata].

Events
New Zealand's [|Department of Conservation] holds its annual Conservation Week with all types of ways to get involved. Teachers are asked to document outdoor activities with kids in the Flickr Group [|Conservation: Love New Zealand]. [|Other New Zealand conservation events]
 * October 14-22** Conservation Week

Conservation Week gives you the opportunity to celebrate the natural environment and make a connection with your local special places. There are heaps of special places in New Zealand that you can visit all year round with your family and friends.

Albatross http://albatross.org.nz

Resources
[|Get English and Te Reo Māori posters] [|Find Conservation Week posters] to print at home, or for commercial printers. Both English and Te reo Māori versions are available in a range of sizes.

[|@wildsidenz] Hashtag: [|#conservationweek] [|Daily Quiz] [] []

Headlines
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-giant-penguins-20171212-story.html https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/95152815/tourism-concessions-failing-to-deliver-conservation-advantages-study-suggests http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/335869/little-environmental-payoff-for-tourism-concessions https://twitter.com/valentinadinica/status/892710005450735616 http://stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/90152484/environmental-history-of-manawatu-takes-prestigious-award http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/323934/'they've-basically-stolen-public-land' http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/summerreport/audio/201829189/whale-watch-kaikoura-opens-for-business-today-after-nov-quake http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/87220617/Tapping-the-tourists-to-keep-NZ-100-pure http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/86702463/the-price-of-paradise-new-zealands-great-walks-are-losing-millions-of-dollars http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/318782/what-did-kaikoura's-wildlife-go-through [|Environment NZ’s weak point for UN goals] - [|@sciblogsnz] [|The beginning of the end?] [|Department-of-Conservation-funding-why-don-t-the-numbers-match-up] [|Editorial: DOC cuts threaten not just flora and fauna but tourism and lives as well] [|Department of Conservation revamp badly flawed] [|Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for New Zealand Species, 29 May 2016] [|Poor marks for NZ on environment - OECD] [] - [|@Forest_and_Bird] [|@rnz_news] [|@radionz] http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/rural/271271/doc,-fur-council-cosy-up [|Government expands national parks] [|What was New Zealand’s first fully protected native bird?] [] - [|@upcountrynz] [|Kiwis don't have Aussie roots] [|$26.5m-over-four-years-to-protect-kauri] [|Marine reserves south of NZ approved by MPs] [|Cycle operator seeks money from trail users] [|The clearest lake in the world] No swimming: 52% impure NZ rivers - NZ Herald [|NZ'S 10 most endangered species] [|whanganui-river-given-rights-as-a-legal-identity] [|Protected marine areas and inland waters] [] [|Heaphy Track]

Roadmap
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/conservation-and-environment-science-roadmap-announced http://www.mfe.govt.nz/about-us/our-policy-and-evidence-focus/conservation-and-environment-science-roadmap https://twitter.com/wildsidenz/status/835577618070134784

New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
The [|New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan] expresses New Zealand’s commitment to stem the loss of biodiversity worldwide.

The 2016-2020 Action Plan showcases some of the significant national actions being undertaken through the combined efforts of central and local government, whānau, hapū, iwi, resource managers, communities, private landowners and businesses.

Toitū te marae a Tāne-Mahuta, Toitū te marae a Tangaroa, Toitū te tangata. If the land is well and the sea is well, the people will thrive.

http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/biodiversity/nz-biodiversity-strategy-and-action-plan http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/conservation/new-zealand-biodiversity-action-plan-2016-2020.pdf https://twitter.com/wildsidenz media type="custom" key="28888196"

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Our Waters in Common
http://www.tasman.govt.nz/environment/water/rivers/our-waters-in-common http://www.tasman.govt.nz/environment/water/rivers/river-flow http://www.tasman.govt.nz/environment/water http://www.tasman.govt.nz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJb_D1RJ02c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81zNEmTCYVY

Our Waters in Common is a movie exploring the state of our Tasman environment.

The film examines the amazing things that rivers provide us, the issues they face, and how communities and agencies are working together to improve them.

Riding on the back of a big water quality reporting effort, the movie was a year in the making and was helped by a huge volunteer effort.

The beauty and diversity of the district’s rivers shines through and the stories of so many good people working to improve our rivers’ health are warmly and poignantly portrayed.

With such a wonderful community in Tasman looking after our rivers, it is hard not to be encouraged. While you are bound to learn lots, the film presents the information in a very engaging and easily-understood way.

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Predator Free NZ
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-be-predator-free-2050 [|A conservation summit on Predator Free NZ 2050] http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/201809596/predator-free-nz-ambitious-and-under-funded http://predatorfreenz.org - __@PredatorFreeNZ__ It's crazy and ambitious, but I think it might be worth a shot - Sir Paul Callaghan http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wonder-list-bill-weir-new-zealand-predator-free-2050/index.html https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/new-zealand-predator-free-2050-rats-gene-drive-ruh-roh/546011/

[|@Spokesbird] [|@LCR_NZ] [|@AlisonBallance] [|@RNZScience] [|@EDS_NewZealand] [|@Forest_and_Bird] [|@NZGreens] https://twitter.com/valentinadinica

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Royalcam
Meanwhile in new zealand: royalcam

Department of Conservation (DOC)
[|Department of Conservation] [|Great Walks] [|Weather] [|Sirocco] [|Getting Involved in Conservation] []

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/wildsidenz https://www.facebook.com/DOCWESTCOAST https://www.facebook.com/FiordlandConservationTrust https://www.facebook.com/wildernesslodgesofnewzealand

Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nzwild https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathan-aotearoa

Flickr Groups
[|Ecotourism Oceania] [|Conservation: Love New Zealand] [|NZ DOC Huts] [|NZ Wildlife] [|Natural History of New Zealand]

Apps
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/birdlife-of-new-zealand/id972070493?mt=8

Blogs
[|Conservation Blog] [|www.catherineknight.nz]

Twitter
[|@wildsidenz] [|@DOCWestCoast] [|@NZGreatWalks] [|@outdoorsnz_nz] [|@Forest_and_Bird] [|@nzbirdsonline] [|@newzealandbirds] [|@upcountrynz] [|@NZConJobs] [|@Spokesbird] [|@envirohistoryNZ] [|@AlisonBallance] [|@sciblogsnz] [|@OSNZBirdsNZ] [|@FMC_NZ] [|@DOCTSAmbassador] https://twitter.com/rebecca_jarvis https://twitter.com/kimi_collins

Hashtag [|#wildnz]

Wikipedia
[|Department of Conservation] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_parks_of_New_Zealand [|Protected areas of New Zealand]

Wiki
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YouTube
[|Doc]

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Recommended Viewing
[|Project Whenua] is a brand new environmental science series for Māori Television. []

[|Journeys in National Parks] - Peter Hayden travels through some of New Zealand's most varied, awe-inspiring and spiritual environments. Though there is superbly filmed flora and fauna, geology and other standard natural history documentary staples, it is the history of people's relationship with these sublime landscapes and a genial New Zealand passion for the environment, that makes a lasting impression. [|Journeys in National Parks: Westland / Aoraki] [|Journeys in National Parks: Tongariro te Maunga] [|Journeys in National Parks: Te Urewera] [|Journeys in National Parks: Hauraki Gulf] [|Journeys in National Parks: Fiordland]

Recommended Listening
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201827339/privatising-the-great-walks

[|Rediscovered - the New Zealand storm petrel] - [|@AlisonBallance]

[|A new future for marine protected areas] - Environment Minister Nick Smith is championing new legislation for marine protected areas, and Raewyn Peart from the Environmental Defence Society has some thoughts on its strengths and weaknesses.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201795651/submariner,-terry-kerby-on-the-wonders-of-the-ocean-depths

[|Critter Of The Week - Nicola Toki] - Our Critter Of The Week, isn't a critter at all. It's the [|Parapara tree], also known as the bird-catching tree. It catches insects, birds, and even more birds who come in to catch the little birds caught in it. It's like Roald Dahl's The Twits!

[|Northland's Forest Collapse] - Forest and Bird's Northland advocate Dean Baigent-Mercer this week released drone-footage shot above Northland's Whangaroa, Russell and Otangaroa forests and tells RNZ's Jeremy Rose the forests are on the point of collapse. Then Northland Regional Council Bio-Security manager Don McKenzie, Northland Conservation Board chair Mita Harris, Reconnecting Northland's David Mules, and DoC Conservation Partnerships Manager for the Far North Carolyn Smith respond.

[|How Project Janszoon is restoring Abel Tasman National Park] - Devon Mclean believes philanthropy in conservation a is the way of the future. He's the director of Project Janszoon which is working to protect and preserve Abel Tasman National Park, thanks to 25 million dollars of funding from philanthropists Neil and Annette Plowman

[|Offsetting biodiversity losses - Radio NZ]

[|Vanishing Nature]

[|Restoring the Dawn Chorus at Windy Hill Sanctuary] - From small beginnings in 1999, a consortium of private land-owners in southern Great Barrier Island is making a big ecological impact on their land. http://www.naturespace.org.nz/groups/windy-hill-rosalie-bay-catchment-trust http://www.sanctuariesnz.org/projects/windyhill.asp [|@AlisonBallance] [|@RNZ_Science]

[|Island lifeboats for New Zealand's birds and reptiles] - When humans first set foot in New Zealand almost a thousand years ago, they encountered a rich fauna of reptiles and flightless birds. These first human visitors, and visitors and settlers since brought with them rats, cats, mice, rabbits and stoats which feasted on the local fauna, or degraded the environment, driving many original species to extinction. But luckily, a few small offshore islands remain undisturbed. Now scientists are using these islands as ecological lifeboats, as a source supplying birds and reptiles back to the mainland. Matthew Crawford reports for //The Science Show.//

[|Protecting the environmental and cultural heritage on the North Island] Wetlands in around Hamilton are under threat with more than 3000 dairy farms having a significant impact on water quality according to the latest State of the Environment report.

[|A Life Worth Having] - In November 2014, a forum called [|A Place to Live : for the life worth having] in Whanganui focussed on the link between economic and environmental health in New Zealand, in particular in the regions and smaller centres.

Sunday, 13 May 2012: A Hard Nut to Crack

[|Listen to this programme] [|Spectrum for 13 May 2012] (duration:26′10″) Download: [|Ogg Vorbis] [|MP3] | [|Embed] The distinctive vomit-like smell of ripe fruit from a Ginkgo tree is enough to put most people off harvesting it. But each Autumn, members of the Asian community can be seen shaking the leaves of trees, particularly around Tauranga, to encourage the Ginkgo bilba fruit to fall to the ground. The fruit is highly prized for its medicinal purposes and the nuts inside are considered an important food delicacy in Japan, Taiwan and other parts of South-East Asia.

[|Nga Uruoara] - As tribute to the noted New Zealand botanist and eco-historian Geoff Park who died in 2009, Radio New Zealand National is featuring his 6-part radio series Paralleling his 1995 book //Nga Uruora – The Groves of Life Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape//.

[|Te Ahi Ka (Sep 25 2011)] [|Ethnobotany] is the science that looks at the relationships between people and plants and if there is a single body of work that encapsulates that within New Zealand, it is the groundbreaking Waitangi Tribunal Claim [|Wai 262] also known as the Flora and Fauna Claim. **Saana Murray** [|(1926 – 2011)] will always be associated with the claim that took 20 years to complete. In Te Ahi Kaa, three years before her and five others were to create a historical precedent we have an archival recording of her speaking at the //Ethnobotany N////<ga mahi Māori o Te Wao nui a Tane hui// held [|at Rehua Marae, Christchurch]

Individual Episodes
[|Nga Uruora Part 1: The Immense Trees of Ooahaourage]Ecologist Geoff Park examines the impact of European agriculture on the Hauraki Plains country, once the site of the richest pre-colonial Maori culture. It’s also where the country’s future landscape was shaped. (duration: 54′44″) [|Nga Uruora Part 2: The Perfect Vale]Petone foreshore was the ‘beachhead’ of the New Zealand Company who had arrived expecting to find tens of thousands of acres of flat land suitable for agriculture. Settlers were to be bitterly disappointed. (duration: 55′41″) [|Nga Uruora Part 3: The Riverbend]Ecologist Geoff Park goes in search of the reason why a small stand of ancient Kahikatea trees on a bend of the Mokau River has survived, despite the onslaught of forest-clearing and dairying. (duration: 54′29″) [|Nga Uruora Part 4: The Lake in the Sand Country]Papaitonga is the name that Sir Walter Buller gave to his country estate. It was his site for a ‘grand theatre’ of Maori artefacts, and also the place where the philosophy of modern conservation was formed. ( duration: 54′23″) [|Nga Uruora Part 5: The Sandplain Forest]The continued existence of the fragile Nikau Scenic Reserve near Paparoa is an anomaly amidst the dairy country. As it turns out, it’s survival is linked to the story of the Western Black Petrel. ( duration: 53′27″) [|Nga Uruora Part 6: Necessary Protection]What significance should be placed on a few surviving remnants of the pre-agricultural landscape of Aoteraoa, and what would Joseph Banks made of his 'properest place for a colony…'? ( duration: 54′27″)

[|Our Changing World - Discovering prehistoric New Zealand] A research programme at the University of Otago is forcing a re-think about the impact of early Maori on our fauna, especially coastal species. Alison Ballance is at Dunedin's Sandfly Bay with zoologist Jon Waters and PhD student Catherine Collins. It seems prehistoric Otago was home to different kinds of penguins and sea lions from those present now.

[|Our Big Blue Backyard - New Zealand's marine reserves] - Our Big Blue Backyard is the title of the latest book from Taranaki-based natural history writer, academic and graphic designer, Janet Hunt. Her latest focus - Our Big Blue Backyard, is about the 38 marine reserves around the country, and what is needed to protect and preserve New Zealand's seas and foreshores.

Estuaries
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Jobs
[|Conservation Jobs] - [|@NZConJobs] [|DOC Jobs]

Training and Volunteering
[|Conservation Volunteers] [|Trainee Rangers Course] [|Ecotourism Training] [|Maritime and Ecotourism Training]

Ecosystems
New Zealand can be divided into nine ecoregions: @http://tr.im/Newe

Ecotourism
DOC maintains 968 huts and 326 campsites.

Parks
[|General Policy for National Parks] [|National Parks visitor statistics] [|Journeys in National Parks documentary on NZ on Screen] http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/national-parks

Kermadec Marine Reserve
[|59s59 seconds ago] Te Ohu Kaimoana back in Kermadec sanctuary talks The Kermadec region is significant to New Zealand and the world, providing an important safe haven for threatened species and an underwater frontier that scientists are only now beginning to explore. Pew and its partners are calling for a large scale, fully protected marine reserve around the Kermadecs. If the entire region were to be protected, at 620,000 square kilometers it would be one of the largest marine reserves in the world. - http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/global-ocean-legacy-kermadec [|@thekermadecs] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34387945 http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/pm-announces-kermadec-ocean-sanctuary http://mfe.govt.nz/marine/kermadec-ocean-sanctuary http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/auckland/places/kermadec-islands http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11520435 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/72497269/john-key-to-announce-one-of-the-worlds-largest-ocean-sanctuaries http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases/2015/09/28/pew-praises-new-zealands-announcement-of-kermadecs-marine-sanctuary Hashtag: [|Kermadec]

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https://twitter.com/TeOhuKaimoana

Abel Tasman
http://www.abeltasmannationalpark.co.nz

[|Kahurangi National Park may increase in size] http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/nelson-tasman/places/kahurangi-national-park http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/292120/a-new-road-for-west-coast-and-nelson
 * Kahurangi National Park**

Te Urewera National Park
Te Urewera National Park is the largest single block of native forest in New Zealand's north island. Established in 1954 the park covers 212,600 hectares and contains more than 650 different native plant species. This is the fourth largest national park in New Zealand, and the largest in the North Island, covering 212,673 hectares. largest rainforest on the North Island

Te Urewera National Park lies between the Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay in the North Island. The nearest towns are Whakatane, Murupara and Wairoa.

[] [] [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Waikaremoana

Tongariro National Park
http://www.the-park.co.nz http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10751285 http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/national-parks/tongariro http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6848/volcanoes-of-tongariro-national-park

Established in 1887, Tongariro was the first national park in New Zealand and the fourth in the world. It is also a dual World Heritage area, a status which recognizes the park's important Maori cultural and spiritual associations as well as its outstanding volcanic features.

Waipoua Forest
[|Waipoua Forest Trust] is a bicultural partnership between conservationists and Te Iwi O Te Roroa whose vision is to protect, restore, interpret and promote the internationally significant natural heritage at Waipoua.

//Waipoua Forest in Northland is New Zealand's largest sub-tropical rainforest; a unique environment with giant kauri trees up to 3,000 years old at the centre of its ecology; an environment rich in biodiversity in which endangered species flourish. If you volunteer to help us on a working holiday, you will be contributing to a history of conservation going back to 1952.//

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[|Footprints Waipoua Crossings Hokianga]: "Have you ever noticed how Kauri don't have lower branches on their trunk area? What the lower trunk does have though are a lot of divits. Kauri shed their lower branches in a process known as Abscission (from the Latin ab meaning away and scindere meaning to cut) so vines can't cling to or climb the trunk and they convert that energy they would have used to grow a limb into overall tree height, and punch for the Crown Canopy. Interesting to note, when Kauri abscise their lower branches, the branch takes the knot with it, hence the divits. Their majestic trunks made them ideal for masts on ships, which was a big contributor as to why they were plundered to near extinction."=====

Whanganui National Park
http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/national-parks/whanganui http://www.protectedplanet.net/sites/Whanganui_National_Park

Fiordland National Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiordland_National_Park

Fauna
Before human influence, New Zealand's only land mammals were two species of bats. Small populations of both these species remain in [|Puketi] and require protection.

Bees
New Zealand has 28 native and 13 (deliberately and accidentally) introduced species of bees []

Birds
http://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz https://github.com/dragonfly-science/new-zealand-birds [|New Zealand Birds Online] http://www.osnz.org.nz - https://twitter.com/OSNZBirdsNZ - https://www.facebook.com/Birdsnewzealand

[|Birds Broadcast - Radio New Zealand National]

http://www.osnz.org.nz/PRESS_RELEASE - https://twitter.com/OSNZBirdsNZ

http://www.pce.parliament.nz/publications/taonga-of-an-island-nation-saving-new-zealands-birds http://www.pce.parliament.nz/media/1696/faq-taonga-of-an-island-nation-2017.pdf https://twitter.com/NZ_PCE

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/48313
 * Huia**


 * Kakapo:** The kakapo is the word's largest parrot, flightless and with a tricky breeding cycle. Recently their number actually went down to a mere 51 birds on Earth, but now scientists have successfully found ways to breed them.

Saving New Zealand's kakapo

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 * Kiwi** are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae.


 * Moa** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa


 * Penguins:** Yellow Eyed Penguins (Hoiho) are native New Zealand penguins that can be found on the coast of Dunedin in Otago Peninsula.

are the only remaining species able to disperse the large seeds of forest trees. [|Kereru in Wellington] http://www.kererudiscovery.org.nz
 * Kereru**

Extinct birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adzebill

The extinct Moa derives its name from the Polynesian word for chicken

Dinosaurs
Extinct. Places in NZ dinosaurs have roamed: Port Waikato, Hawkes Bay, the Chatham Islands (Rekohu).... and Auckland Museum! []

Insects
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http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/invertebrates/weta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta http://www.doc.govt.nz/getting-involved/home-and-garden/build-a-weta-motel
 * Weta**

Shellfish
//**[|Paphies ventricosa]**//, or **toheroa** in the Māori language, is a large bivalve mollusc of the family [|Mesodesmatidae], endemic to New Zealand.

[|Paua or pāua] is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family [|Haliotidae] (there is only genus //[|Haliotis]//), known in the USA as abalone.

kōura - crayfish (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikoura)

Reptiles: Tuatara
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/tuatara

Snails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powelliphanta

Worms There are 173 known species of native earthworms in New Zealand

Flora
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Georgina Burne Healey documented native New Zealand flowers in her 1888 publication http://s.si.edu/2lBSyPs [|#IWD2017]  Digitized [|@NYBG] [|The native flowers of New Zealand. Illustrated in colours in the best]

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Trees
The Pohutukawa, (Metrosideros excelsa), is known as the New Zealand Christmas tree, as it flares into crimson display from late October until end November and into the Christmas holiday season. [] Wikipedia Explainer: What is the pōhutukawa, aka Metrosideros excelsa [] [|@Pohutukawa6]

http://www.projectcrimson.org.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/4073469/San-Franciscos-pohutukawa-curse

Cabbage Tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_tree_%28Cordyline_australis%29

Ferns
The silver fern - prehistoric vegetation from the time of Gondwanaland - is the national symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyathea_dealbata http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/05/02/science-live-is-it-a-fern

Herbs
[|kawakawa] Kakabeak/kowhai ngutukaka is a shrub found only in New Zealand. It is a member of the pea family []

Glaciers
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Elsewhere on the Web
[] [] - [|@ECONewZealand] [] [] [|Protected Areas in New Zealand - Protected Planet] [] - [|@geonet] [] - Forest & Bird - [|@Forest_and_Bird] https://www.niwa.co.nz - https://twitter.com/niwa_nz - https://www.facebook.com/nzniwa http://www.mountainsafety.org.nz - https://twitter.com/NZ_MSC http://www.wildernesslodge.co.nz - https://www.facebook.com/wildernesslodgesofnewzealand http://environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/new-zealand/new-zealand-journal https://twitter.com/envirohistoryNZ https://envirohistorynz.com/2016/10/04/new-issue-of-environment-nature-nz/ http://environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ENNZ-Sep-2016.pdf


 * [|Fauna of New Zealand Series] - online access to contributions describing New Zealand's unique land fauna.
 * [|Flora of New Zealand Series] - online access to the Flora series describing New Zealand's unique flora.

[|Environmental Defence Society New Zealand] - [|@environmentnz]

Environment
[|Department of Conservation] [|Ministry for the Environment] [|Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand] [|Natural History New Zealand] [|Natural Step New Zealand] [|New Zealand Conservation Jobs] [|Holistic Business] [|Conservation Week - Doc] [|Conservation Week - TVNZ] [|Exploring parks - Department of Conservation] (PDF) [|Gentle Footprints: Boots 'n' all - Ministry for the Environment] (PDF) [|Forest and Bird]

NZCA [|New Zealand Conservation Authority - NZCA] The role of the New Zealand Conservation Authority // Te Pou Atawhai Taiao O Aotearoa // is to advise the Minister of Conservation and the Director-General of Conservation. It is closely involved in conservation planning and policy development affecting the management of public conservation areas administered by the Department of Conservation as it approves the statutory strategies and plans which set objectives for their management.

The New Zealand Conservation Authority is:
 * not a board of directors with governance responsibilities
 * serviced by the Department of Conservation.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #575757; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; vertical-align: baseline;">a member of the the New Zealand Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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Quotes
Last year New Zealand honoured the United Nations Year of Biodiversity with the revelation that we are among the world's worst biodiversity losers We have 2788 species listed as threatened with extinction. Worse still is the reality that if more funding were available for further investigation, the species now classified as "data limited" would likely be listed as threatened and double the number on that list. The historical reasons for this biodiversity tragedy are unmistakable. We drained 90 per cent of our wetlands, removed over 70 percent of our native forests and dammed, straightened, stop-banked and engineered most rivers. - Mike Joy, [|The dying myth of a clean, green Aotearoa]

Filing http://enved.net/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Environmental-Education/309451935855691?ref=hl [|@NZEnved]

Expedition travel company Heritage Expeditions was born in the mid-1980s out of the belief that New Zealand’s precious birdlife must be protected for future generations. In his early working life, founder Rodney Russ was instrumental in the conservation of many birds on New Zealand’s endangered species list including the Campbell Island flightless teal, kākāpō and the black robin. The Christchurch-based, family-owned company he founded remains true to his passion and commitment to conservation. This December, a special fundraising voyage to New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands will be run as part of Heritage Expeditions’ longstanding partnership with Forest & Bird. Heritage Expeditions is pleased to extend this support to Forest & Bird as sponsor for Bird of the Year in 2015. - See more at: http://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Seabed Mining (2014)
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http://www.edsconference.com https://vimeo.com/user33383507 [|program] [|#EDSWildPlaces2016] [|@EDS_NewZealand] [|@Forest_and_Bird] [|@RobSuisted]
 * August 10-11** Wild Places

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