Nature | BBC News | NZEdge
6 February 2002
NZEdge co-founder and director, Kevin Roberts, accompanies Britain’s Princess Anne to Antarctica to celebrate the centenary of Scott and Shackleton’s discovery expeditions, and to launch the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust’s 10 year project to conserve the…
Nature | BBC News
18 December 2001
Phil Robinson, helicopter pilot and Greenpeace activist, films rare Southern Ocean footage of a Japanese vessel harpooning a whale after a 40 minute chase. “Scientists” responded by targeting Greenpeace inflatables with water cannons.
Nature | BBC News
12 December 2001
New Zealand scientist Gavin Hunt describes a new theory of “how human beings came to be right-handed” by investigating the “right beakedness” tendencies of crows when “ripping pieces from leaves.” The discovery makes it more likely that…
Nature | BBC News
20 November 2001
The environmental state of Antarctica’s Ross Sea region is in pristine condition – “exceptionally so by global standards” – according to a new report from the New Zealand Antarctic Institute. However the reports also points out “significant…
Nature | CNET
29 October 2001
School children in Amagase, Japan have adopted lambs resident in Dunedin, Amagase’s sister city in New Zealand. The lambs have their own websites for the children to access and catch up on what’s happening with their…
Nature | Arts & Letters Daily | Washington Post
21 October 2001
University of Canterbury’s Professor Denis Dutton (Arts and Letters Daily) reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s controversial new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, in the Washington Post: Dutton concludes that the “richly informative, lucid book” containing “bad news for Green…
Nature | Far Eastern Economic Review (The)
1 October 2001
New Zealand, long recognised for its environmental innovation, makes another advance. Researches at Massey University have found a unique technique for the quick and safe treatment and removal of hazardous chemical spills. The portable unit draws effluent…
Nature | CNN News
24 September 2001
Mark Johnson is literally leading the way with research into whale behaviour – part of his work involves attaching digital recorders to 60-foot sperm whales out in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists like Johnson are trying…
Nature | Times (The)
12 September 2001
The Times explores the unlikely problem of growing tea trees like they do down in New Zealand.
Nature | News.com.au
29 July 2001
1841: 1,214 acres of land around Waitemata Harbour purchased from Maori – the future site of Auckland city.
Nature | Sunday Times
22 July 2001
New Zealand Manuka honey cures what ails you.
Nature | Guardian (The)
15 July 2001
The 1999 Montana Reserve Sauvignon Blanc (“my homage to Michael Schuster”) is a current favorite of British women’s-health guru Dr Miriam Stoppard. This New Zealand example is ‘fresh and rich and slightly oaky with a really lovely…
Nature | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
14 July 2001
Is every living thing on earth descended from a heat loving bacteria – or are we, as Dr Anthony Poole of Massey University suggests, all really aliens on our own planet?
Nature | BBC News
10 July 2001
Which ever way you flip it, global warming will affect every part of New Zealand – but perhaps we’re among the lucky ones?
Nature | Ananova
3 July 2001
Newly discovered New Zealand parasitic wasp creates a whole new insect family – Maamingidae, named after the Maori word for trickster, because it has taken so long to come to light.
Nature | Guardian (The)
1 July 2001
New Zealand comes up smelling of roses, second equal behind Finland in the world anti-corruption rankings.
Nature | International Herald Tribune
28 June 2001
Global warming, along with over-fishing and oil-spills, threatens penguin populations around the world says University of Otago penguin biologist Lloyd Davies.
Nature | Yahoo! News
27 June 2001
New Zealand’s carbon emissions rose 22% in the 1990’s, almost certainly putting Kyoto targets out of reach.
Nature | BBC News
26 June 2001
New Zealand rat predatation expert Mike Bell called in to save the puffins of Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.
Nature | Las Vegas Sun
21 June 2001
New Zealand Kune Kune pig Grunty, former star of British programme Pig at the Ritz, currently resident at a farm in Wellington, southwest England, saved from slaughter after being declared free of foot and mouth.
Nature | Seattle Times
17 June 2001
New Zealand plant expert Doctor Warwick Harris lectures in Seattle on the Christchurch Botanical gardens.
Nature | Iol.co.za
15 June 2001
Cache of moa bones and other fossils found under Canterbury vineyard.
Nature | Ananova
7 June 2001
“We need to take millions of possums out of circulation, not just nibble at it,” said Tauranga farmer Bryan Bassett-Smith promoting Possyum, the possum meat dog food he hopes will solve New Zealand’s marsupial woes.
Nature | Washington Post
20 May 2001
Hoiho (yellow-eyed penguins, literally noise-shouters) catch the attention of an international money man.
Nature | Ananova | Kea
18 May 2001
The kea outscores gibbons in intelligence tests. “There was definitely learning going on,” says Rachel Johnston who administered the avian IQ tests.
Nature | BBC News
29 April 2001
The BBC’s Radio4 celebrates International Dawn Chorus Day by listening to the world wake up via some aural ornithology; singing the sun up is the enchanting “Nightingale of New Zealand” – the Tui.
Nature | ABC News
20 April 2001
Japan gets sharky over New Zealand’s support for a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, but South Pacific nations are right behind the proposal.
Nature | Iol.co.za
5 April 2001
“New Zealand Christmas tree” defended by Cape Town fans.
Nature | Age (The)
2 April 2001
New Zealander Ruby Haazen, 13, sails the high seas fighting for a cleaner earth.
Nature | World News
2 April 2001
Phil Goff, Minister for Foreign Affairs and trade, voiced New Zealand’s condemnation of the Bush back-down on Kyoto after a meeting with US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Nature | Guardian (The)
31 March 2001
New Zealand flax gives British gardens a spiky edge.
Nature | Scotsman (The)
31 March 2001
Scotland’s national collection of New Zealand Olearia attract visitors to Inverewe Gardens on the shores of Lake Ewe.
Nature | Guardian (The) | Kea
29 March 2001
The inhospitable alpine environment has caused the kea to develop “a very human-like curiosity and flexibility”.
Nature | Ananova
14 March 2001
European consumers can’t wait to get their hands on sustainably fished New Zealand hoki fish-fingers, but some groups strongly dispute the fishery’s right to the “sustainable” label.
Nature | CNN News
12 March 2001
“If you were in a position where every family could eat kiwi for lunch, then you would have solved the problem, wouldn’t you,” says John Wamsley, head of the private Environmental Sanctuaries group. But, “our aim…
Nature | Guardian (The)
11 March 2001
Cornwall’s bio-dome Eden Project houses vegetation from every part of the planet – including the edge.
Nature | Sunday Times
11 March 2001
A New Zealand silver astelia adds elegance to Irish garden designer Dominick Murphy’s small garden.
Nature | Miami Herald
1 March 2001
Volunteers at the new International Orchid Centre in Florida will “communicate their enthusiasm for orchids and an attitude of ‘Hell, if I can grow them, you can too’,” says American Orchid Society director of education, Kiwi…
Nature | Washington Post
1 March 2001
New Zealand olearias feature in celeb-gardner Penelope Hobhouse’s top picks.
Nature | Aftenposten (The) | Kea
28 February 2001
“Even in New Zealand there are sheep farmers that lose stock to wildlife, namely the Kea, a large native and protected parrot. It may seem incredible, but it’s true.”
Nature | Iol.co.za
27 February 2001
Wellington residents disturbed by amorous possums engage in chemical warfare to keep the peace.
Nature | News24.com
23 February 2001
New Zealand’s innovative network of marine reserves are seen as a prototype for international action to preserve the health of the ocean.
Nature | Scotsman (The)
9 February 2001
When’s a kiwi not a kiwi? When it’s really an escaped Australian …
Nature | ABC News
8 February 2001
New Zealand representatives at the International Whaling Commission are keeping up the pressure for a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary.
Nature | Iol.co.za
7 February 2001
“Kiwi dardevil” enlisted to clear South African mountain of pesky tahrs.
Nature | Sunday Times
28 January 2001
Plant New Zealand hebe for a “calming, understated and very grown-up” look.
Nature | Times of India
17 January 2001
Dozens of giant squid have washed up on New Zealand beaches, but no one has yet sighted the monster alive.
Nature | News24.com
17 January 2001
Gardening makes you happy says Judith Kidd of Massey University.
Nature | Age (The)
16 January 2001
Victoria looks to follow New Zealand’s lead on marine reserves, seen as a “back-up” for species conservation, and a way of replenishing fishing stocks. Prince Charles supports a similar idea in the Bay if Biscay.
Nature | Guardian (The)
11 January 2001
Thermophile archaeons thrive at temperatures hot enough to boil the flesh off your bones. Layers of extremophile life form flourish in multi-coloured rings in Rotorua’s thermal springs.
Nature | Telegraph (The)
11 January 2001
“No one who has seen an albatross on the wing is ever likely to forget the experience,” says Prince Charles. New Zealand’s Chatham Island albatross is down to 4000 pairs.
Nature | News24.com
5 January 2001
Earth hits the nadir of its orbit in summer – the mere 147 million kilometres between us and the sun mean New Zealanders face “extreme” ultra-violet levels.
Nature | Times (The)
3 January 2001
New Zealand giant wetas – also known as “demon crickets” – are among the most exotic animals at London Zoo.
Nature | Excite News
3 January 2001
New Zealand organisation has succeeded in liberating Sonny the chimp, a former performer with Ridgeways Circus. He has been reunited with his brother Buddy in Zambia.
Nature | Star (The)
24 December 2000
Does a pohutukawa in bloom signal a marriage, heat or no Father Christmas?
Nature | Business Day
22 December 2000
Don’t pick the mistletoe – it’s endangered, but you can take a chainsaw to the holly – a noxious weed.