NICK HUMPHRIES Nick Humphries remembers the moment he fully grasped the power of conservation. It was 2015. He was 18 years old, and stationed at Scott Base as a BLAKE Antarctic Ambassador. “I took a snow-bike for a ride around the base and at one point I stopped,...
BLAKE Inspire delegate Mahina Walle has the privilege of living within the country’s first nature reserve. Now she wants to protect the marine life around it, she tells Suzanne McFadden. She’s just 16, but Mahina Walle has set herself an ambitious environmental goal...
For all the staggering sights of Antarctica – the vast white wilderness and its unique wildlife; summer days with no end – it is the sounds of the frozen continent that remain with Harry Seagar. It was the commotion of the wind in particular that struck the...
It’s unlikely that a female kākāpō agonises over her weight. Fortunately, however, there are a group of humans who do that for her. It’s been a bumper breeding season for the critically endangered kākāpō, on the predator-free islands of Whenua Hou/Codfish Island off...
David Hill may not know a luff from a lanyard. And yet he was able to capture the essence of Sir Peter Blake in his picture book for young readers, Hero of the Sea. Hill, an award-winning New Zealand author, did extensive research into the life of the late adventurer...
Growing up, James Frankham would spend summers with his family at the bottom end of Waiheke Island. On any given day, he could look up or down the Waiheke Channel and see two or three ‘work-ups’ of kahawai. The work-ups – where baitfish are rounded up into a...
