What went wrong and what are we doing about it? - New Zealand …
In old-style Waitangi Day speeches, people used to boast that New Zealand was unique: the only British colony established through a formal agreement with the inhabitants. This was wrong. Britain made its first colonial treaty in 1609. In West Africa alone it made 10 treaties similar to the Waitangi Treaty.
What happened on Whakaari? - New Zealand Geographic
The eruption started at 9.35pm, with big heaves inside the crater. At 10.03pm, it began pelting the walking track with projectiles, but withheld its final energy until 10.11pm when, with a whoomph, it sent the plume sky-high.A scalding current of steam and debris, coloured green by the hydrothermally altered rock it contained, rolled right over …
Kea: the feisty parrot - New Zealand Geographic
Kea Have been enchanting and infuriating visitors to the mountains since the first explorers’ boots scrunched through the scree. Hear Charlie Douglas, quoted in John Pascoe’s Mr Explorer Douglas: “I was sitting sketching with my back against a rock.As is usual when finished, I held it at arm’s length to admire my handiwork, when in that mountain solitude I was startled by a ...
Tuatara - A survivor from the dinosaur age - New Zealand …
For tuatara are the great survivors in New Zealand. Their ancestors, the first sphenodontidans (a name meaning ‘wedge tooth’), shared virtually all continents with dinosaurs. They appear as fossils from North America, Europe, England and Africa, from 225 million years ago until about 120 million years ago.
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Skyfall. 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 meaning of mana - New Zealand Geographic
There are more cautionary notes in Māoridom dealing with mana than you could shake the proverbial stick at. It is a source of both personal and collective strength, pride and identity. Mishandled, it becomes the bearer of shame, ridicule and embarrassment. If mana allows us to walk tall, then it also casts a long shadow—humility. To write about mana can be likened to picking blackberries ...
Inside the Land March - New Zealand Geographic
Te Rōpū o te Matakite sets out from Te Hāpua on September 14, 1975. Te Hāpua was the birthplace of then-Minister of Māori Affairs Matiu Rata. The proposed march united a wide cross-section of urban and rural Māori, but support was not universal. Rata felt it would undermine his efforts from within the government, and sought to head it off.
The night Tarawera awoke - New Zealand Geographic
The night Tarawera awoke. When Mt Tarawera and the surrounding area erupted in the early hours of June 10, 1886, the explosion annihilated the world-famous Pink and White Terraces, smothered a vast swathe of countryside with ash and killed more than 100 people. It remains the largest volcanic eruption since European settlement, an outburst of ...
Pohutukawa-flame of the north - New Zealand Geographic
The beach is fringed with pohutukawa trees, single and stunted in the gardens, spreading and noble on the cliffs and in the empty spaces by the foreshore. Tiny red coronets prick through the grey-green leaves. Bark, flower and leaf seem overlaid with smoke. The red is of a dying fire at dusk, the green faded and drab.
A map of the future - New Zealand Geographic
There’s a lot at risk when it comes to extreme river and coastal flooding: 750,000 New Zealanders, about 500,000 buildings worth more than $145 billion, thousands of kilometres of roads and rail tracks, and 20 airports, according to a recent report by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).