by Evita Zarina | Jun 6, 2025 | Flora & Fauna, Publications
By Annie HillThe original article in Russell Lights | Ngā Mārama o Kororāreka One of our most voracious predators, stoats are a member of the mustelid family, which includes everything from weasels and ferrets (also in New Zealand) through mink and polecats to otters...
by Evita Zarina | Jun 6, 2025 | Publications
By Annie HillThe original article in Russell Lights | Ngā Mārama o Kororāreka Most of us like to get out into the bush and I am no exception.As soon as I step onto a pathway under the trees, the world slows and quietens down. Instead of the noise of cars and lawn...
by Evita Zarina | Jun 6, 2025 | Flora & Fauna, Publications
By Annie HillThe original article in Russell Lights | Ngā Mārama o Kororāreka Although they’ve lived alongside us for centuries, accompanying us as we expanded around the world, enjoying the bounty of our food supplies and homes, people generally dislike rats. Most...
by Evita Zarina | Jun 6, 2025 | Flora & Fauna, Publications
By Annie HillThe original article in Russell Lights | Ngā Mārama o Kororāreka Pīwakawaka / fantail is one of the most recognised and loved of our native birds. In Māori mythology, pīwakawaka is a messenger, bringing news of death from the gods to the people. Some...
by Evita Zarina | Jun 6, 2025 | Flora & Fauna, Publications
By Annie HillThe original article in Russell Lights | Ngā Mārama o Kororāreka Those of us brought up in Great Britain learned to love hedgehogs when we were children because they often appeared in our books anthropomorphised into attractive personalities. Most people...
by Evita Zarina | Apr 21, 2025 | Flora & Fauna, Publications
Pāteke Brown Teal By Annie HillThe original article in Russell Lights | Ngā Mārama o Kororāreka April edition 2025 New Zealand’s Rarest Duck: Not the One You Think Did you think that the rarest duck in New Zealand is the whio blue duck’? It is, in fact the pāteke...
