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The tourist trap | New Zealand Geographic
Snorkellers return to shore from the Avaavaroa Passage, a dangerous stretch of water where the open ocean enters the lagoon. Tours there have exploded in popularity; the Cook Islands government, which prefers to be hands-off, is now finalising regulations specific to this spot.
Tupaia - New Zealand Geographic
Tupaia was a high priest, artist, diplomat and celestial navigator from Ra'iātea who joined James Cook's Endeavour in Tahiti in 1769. He became the first to converse with Māori in New Zealand and helped Cook observe the transit of Venus.
Publishing Archives | New Zealand Geographic
Publishing We need your help. New Zealand Geographic has been an icon of environmental journalism for 35 years, but times are changing, and we need your help to survive.
What went wrong and what are we doing about it? - New Zealand …
A journalist explores 150 years of treaty history and the differences between Maori and English versions of the treaty. He examines the causes and consequences of the treaty breaches and the challenges of reconciliation.
Tanked | New Zealand Geographic
How one man with a chip on his shoulder changed our waterways forever. The manager of Farmers in Auckland had a problem. He’d bought a handful of koi carp, an ornamental species, for a display pond. The carp had been smuggled into the country with a load of goldfish. Perhaps the manager knew this provenance, […]
Matariki rising - New Zealand Geographic
There’s a new holiday on the calendar: Matariki, the Māori new year. It’s the first indigenous celebration to be formally recognised in any colonised country. It brings with it a focus on the resurgence of the maramataka, the Māori environmental calendar. And it might just be the best thing that’s happened to New Zealand’s environmental conscience in years.
The hunt for New Zealand's dinosaurs - New Zealand Geographic
Ever since New Years’ Eve 1853, when Richard Owen was feted with a seven-course banquet in the half-finished reconstruction of Iguanodon, dinosaurs have been the toast of science and a magnet for marketeers the world over.. Owen, a comparative anatomist, and the first person to recognise dinosaurs as a distinct group of animals, coined …
Skyfall | New Zealand Geographic
For decades, New Zealand has been insulated from highly pathogenic avian flu—the disease that has devastated poultry flocks and waterfowl around the world. But now, the virus has evolved to take down mammals and seabirds, and that dramatically raises the chances of it reaching us. For some of our native species, this virus could be the greatest threat …
Lost | New Zealand Geographic
What happens to the psyche when a person walks and walks, starving and alone? I went to see the Yeti in Palmerston North. He lived at the end of a cul-de-sac in a 1970s split-level. I brought biscuits. “What are they?” he said. “Chit Chats,” I told …