Tuatara take first steps to comeback
"The first tuatara eggs have been laid on Tiritiri Matangi Island after 60 of the
ancient reptiles were moved there two months ago ..."
New Zealand Herald 29 December 2003
Brown kiwi return to Wairarapa after 100-year absence
"Six North Island brown kiwi have been released on the slopes of Mt Bruce, or Pukaha,
after a 100-year absence from Wairarapa ..."
New Zealand Herald 12 December 2003
NZ shows how not to manage deep sea fisheries - WWF
"The New Zealand orange roughy fishing industry has been held up by international
environmentalists as a model of how not to manage deep sea fisheries ..."
NEW ZEALAND HERALD 28 November 2003
Sea-level rise shelved for now
"Glaciers spotted surging to sea after ice-shelf collapse ... parts of Antarctica's
icy fringes are propping up its vast glaciers ..."
Nature Science Update 28 November 2003
Kiwi-killing stoats able to sidestep traps, says DoC
"Trap-shy stoats are a problem for pest controllers battling to protect kiwi, a
Department of Conservation report has found ..."
New Zealand Herald 12 November 2003
B-15A, B-15J, and C-16 icebergs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
"A massive iceberg that had been blocking traditional shipping routes to McMurdo
Station, the National Science Foundation's research station in Antarctica, snapped
in two seemingly overnight"
NASA VISIBLE EARTH 12 November 2003
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice marching to different drivers
"A 30-year satellite record of sea ice in the two polar regions reveals that while
the Northern Hemisphere Arctic ice has melted, Southern Hemisphere Antarctic ice has
actually increased in more recent years ..."
2003 Earth Feature Story NASA GODDARD SPACE
FLIGHT CENTER 11 November 2003
Big melt warning for Arctic
"The ice covering the Arctic Ocean is getting thinner as
summers lengthen, say British scientists ..."
BBC NEWS 29 October 2003
Co-op goes GM-free
"The Co-op has announced that it is banning genetically modified food and ingredients
throughout its entire business"
BBC NEWS 21 October 2003
Study links GE crops to environmental damage
"LONDON - British scientists have delivered a massive blow to the case for
genetically engineered crops by showing in a trail-blazing study that growing
them could harm the environment ..."
New Zealand Herald 17 October 2003
Purple frog delights scientists
"It has to be one of the strangest looking frogs ever discovered ..."
BBC NEWS 17 October 2003
South American glaciers' big melt
"The Patagonia glaciers of Chile and Argentina are melting so fast they are making
a significant contribution to sea-level rise, say scientists ..."
BBC NEWS 17 October 2003
Rare kiwi hatched in incubator
"A rare Haast tokoeka kiwi chick has been hatched outside the wild for the first
time at Queenstown ..."
New Zealand Herald 15 October 2003
Alaska's climate: Too hot to handle
"Alaska is warming up more than anywhere else on Earth. Climate researchers are now
turning to regional models to find out why - and how to deal with it ..."
Nature, Science Update 2 October 2003
Weka bludgeoned in bloody cull
"A bloody weka cull on the Chatham Islands is under fire from an Act MP.
Conservation Minister Chris Carter is defending his department's annual cull of
the birds ..."
New Zealand Herald 15 September 2003
Hundreds of threatened species falling
through conservation gaps
"Park congress hears wildlife reserves omit key areas of species diversity ..."
Nature, Science Update 11 September 2003
DNA shows female moa three times size of male
"The mystery of New Zealand's giant moa has been solved at last - she
was a female"
New Zealand Herald 11 September 2003
No protection for many threatened species
"The global effort to save some of the Earth's rarest creatures from extinction is
fundamentally flawed, scientists say ..."
BBC NEWS 11 September 2003
Brochure fluff masks sad statistics
"A glossy Department of Conservation booklet published last month is filled with happy
stories ... but the big conservation picture is not nearly so rosy. While some birds
have hovered near the top of the critically endangered list ... other, less well-known,
names are vying for an ever-higher placing ..."
New Zealand Herald 9 September 2003
Rare parakeet races up endangered list
"New Zealand's conservation agency is facing its most serious extinction crisis in
two decades as a rare bird jumps to the top of the critically endangered list.
Orange-fronted parakeet numbers have plummeted 75 per cent in just three years,
to between 100 and 200 birds ..."
New Zealand Herald 8 September 2003
Scientists call for 'national parks' of the oceans
"Scientists have identified "rainforests" under the oceans - including in
Australian waters - where biological diversity is at its greatest ..."
New Zealand Herald 7 August 2003
Trip aims to save albatrosses
"A British sailor whose name is a byword for fortitude, John Ridgway, has picked
a new challenge ..."
BBC NEWS 26 July 2003
New GM alert no reason to prolong moratorium says Clark
"The discovery that genetically modified sweetcorn was grown near Gisborne does not
mean a moratorium on commercial GM release should be extended, says Prime Minister
Helen Clark ..."
New Zealand Herald 8 July 2003
Extreme weather evidence of global warming
"In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World
Meteorological Organisation has signalled that the world's weather is going
haywire ..."
New Zealand Herald 3 July 2003
UN help sought for corals hidden in cold seas
"The United Nations should help to protect little-known corals in deep, cold
waters along with tropical cousins such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Norway's
Environment Minister said ..."
New Zealand Herald 13 June 2003
Trawlers blamed for plight of underwater 'rainforest'
"Scientists have raised the alarm about fishing trawlers that are destroying
deepwater coral around New Zealand"
New Zealand Herald 2 June 2003
Deep sea life also needs protection
"When fishermen in the Ross Sea hauled up in April the second-ever intact specimen
of what is being termed the "colossal squid", the world wanted to know more ..."
New Zealand Herald 2 June 2003
Kakapo find new home
"Five kakapo, the world's rarest parrot, have been moved from their sanctuary in the
Marlborough Sounds. The last kakapo were removed from Maud Island last Friday and sent
to Chalky Island in Fiordland"
New Zealand Herald 28 May 2003
Large fish 'may follow dinosaurs'
"The destruction wrought on the world's oceans by industrial fishing is made clear in
a shocking new report ..."
BBC NEWS 14 May 2003
Hopes rise for albatrosses
"The world's largest seabirds, the albatross family, should soon benefit from more
protection around the globe ..."
BBC NEWS 8 May 2003
Seabirds at risk from pirate fishing in Antarctic
"Pirate fishing companies have killed up to 700,000 seabirds snared by accident on
their fishing lines in Antarctic waters in the past six years ..."
New Zealand Herald 10 March 2003
Best feet forward, K2's ready for the wild life
"An 8-year-old kiwi in danger of being destroyed has instead been given a
new lease on life by six hours of ground-breaking surgery"
New Zealand Herald 8 March 2003
Warty NZ giant beetled about with dinosaurs
"A 'dinosaur in miniature', the largest beetle of its type, has entered
the scientific record books but the mystery of its extinction may never be solved.
The wrinkled fungus beetle grew to the length of a man's
thumb and, with moa, raptors and large weta, was part of New Zealand's
"mega-fauna" that existed thousands of years ago."
New Zealand Herald 14 February 2003
New Zealand's flight path to disaster
"Few people are aware that, as the authors claim, New Zealand has a better
record of the birds that lived over the past 100,000 years than any other area
of the world. Our avifauna is diverse, unique, special, intriguing - and, to a
large extent, extinct ..."
New Zealand Herald 14 January 2003
Four new chicks boost DoC's fight for Takahe
"Department of Conservation staff on Maud Island in the Marlborough Sounds have
achieved a rare double success by rearing two sets of twin takahe chicks this
summer ..."
New Zealand Herald 14 January 2003
Polar bear 'extinct within 100 years'
"The polar bear could be driven to extinction by global warming
within 100 years, warns an ecology expert ..."
BBC NEWS 9 January 2003
Ross Island penguins struggling
"The penguins on Ross Island in Antarctica are battling to provide food
for their chicks for another breeding season ..."
New Zealand Herald 9 January 2003 |
