Other articles written by Kate Guthrie
Multiple methods demonstrate wetland restoration benefits
Wetlands: once we called them swamps and thought them as potential farmland and subdivisions, muddy, boggy and waiting to be drained.
What’s outside the fence matters too
Fenced sanctuaries offer a way to create areas of rich, predator free habitat for vulnerable species. But what about the habitat outside the fence?
New book invites children to be ‘nature heroes’ too
New Zealand Nature Heroes by Gillian Candler (Publisher by Potton and Burton) is a book I would have loved to have received as a child.
Goat Island rat abundance measured in multiple ways
Markus Grunwald and James Russell from the University of Auckland recently measured rat relative abundance on Goat Island, 70km north of Auckland.
Volunteers monitor kiwi dispersal for 8 years
Between 2010 and 2016, Friends of Flora and DOC translocated 44 roroa (great spotted kiwi) to the Flora Stream area in Kahurangi National Park.
A strange tale of a bat and a ‘rose’
New Zealand’s short-tailed bats are tiny can increase their bodyweight by a huge 30% in just one night’s successful foraging.
Plastic nest material is potential threat to gannets
A recent study of gannet nests at a Hauraki Gulf gannetry and found an alarming 86% of nests had at least some plastic included in their construction!
Tākapu are high-dive champions
Even been stung by a badly executed bellyflop? Then imagine the impact as a diving tākapu (gannet) hits the water in a perfectly executed dive.
Are weka ‘good predators’?
Weka epitomise many issues around native predator restoration. Is it time to change the way we think about weka? Are weka 'good predators'?
Hidden haven off Coromandel’s 309 Road
Sara Smerdon – Community Advocate for Mahakirau Forest Estate Society – lives right in the forest environment she protects.
River tested as reinvasion obstacle to possums
We can’t fence huge tracts of wilderness – but we can potentially make use of natural barriers to stop possums reinvading cleared areas.
Lizards counted on predator free Kāpiti Island
What a difference 20 years makes! The lizards of Kāpiti Island have now had 20 years of living rat-free - so how are they doing?
Tiny alpine bird is an avid collector of feathers
Rock wrens love feathers. Leaving one or two feathers lying around is a trick that scientists sometimes use to track rock wrens to their nest
Researchers survey farmer attitudes to biodiversity
What are New Zealand beef and sheep farmers’ views on managing and protecting native biodiversity on-farm and what barriers do they face?
Mamaku Point ranger doesn’t let age hold him back
At 72 years old Ernie is still going strong, working around 15 days per month as biosecurity ranger at Mamaku Point Conservation Reserve on Stewart Island.
