Tagged: forests

Bringing the tūī back to town – how native birds are returning to NZ’s restored urban forests - The Changing Climate

Guest Author • May 11, 2022 •

• forests,
• native birds,
• New Zealand stories,
• tui

Elizabeth Elliot Noe, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Andrew D. Barnes, University of Waikato; Bruce Clarkson, University of Waikato, and John Innes, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research   Urbanisation, and the destruction of habitat it entails, is a major threat to native bird populations. But as our new research shows, restored urban forests can return native birds to our cities … Read More

We surveyed Borneo’s orangutans and found 100,000 had ‘disappeared’ - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 19, 2018 •

• Biodiversity,
• Borneo,
• breeding,
• conservation,
• deforestation,
• ecology,
• extinction,
• forests,
• Hunting,
• Indonesia,
• killing,
• Malaysia,
• orangutan,
• poaching,
• prevention,
• rescue

Maria Voigt, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Erik Meijaard, Australian National University, and Serge Wich, Liverpool John Moores University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. “The Big House”, home to the University of Michigan’s American football team, is one of the world’s largest stadiums. Here’s … Read More

Forest health in a changing climate - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 27, 2017 •

• climate change,
• Drought,
• ecology,
• forests,
• Horizon Scan,
• kauri dieback,
• trees

By Dr Cate Macinnis-Ng, Senior Lecturer and Rutherford Discovery Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland There’s still so much to learn about forests ecosystems, especially threatening processes in a changing world. We know forests are essential for human health and well-being. They supply food and building materials for people across the globe and forests also store carbon, regulate … Read More

An overview of the water quality in New Zealand rivers - Waiology

Waiology • Oct 18, 2013 •

• agriculture,
• forests,
• land use,
• pasture,
• Pollution,
• Rivers,
• Water quality

By Rob Davies-Colley The quality of water in rivers and downstream lakes and estuaries strongly affects how we can use it and what value we place on it. And to define water quality, it is imperative to make long-term, national measurements. Much information on the water quality of New Zealand rivers at national scale has come from monitoring at … Read More

Fab four: ways to meet the climate challenge - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • Oct 08, 2009 •

• Adaptation,
• bryan walker,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• energy efficiency,
• forests,
• rainforest,
• renewable

Yet another pre-Copenhagen report has been released, this time  jointly from the influential Center for American Progress, the progressive think tank headed by John Podesta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff,  and the United Nations Foundation, the body founded with Ted Turner’s $1 billion gift in 1998 to support UN causes and activities. Meeting the [...] … Read More