Tagged: gondwana

From Restoration to Reconciliation: Belief 4 – We need to restore the balance - So Shoot Me

Jamie Steer • Dec 17, 2018 •

• balance,
• gondwana,
• introduced species,
• invasive species,
• native species,
• wildlife

This is the idea that people have upset the balance or equilibrium of nature, but that we can return that balance in future if appropriate steps are taken. This belief is very much supported in New Zealand by this notion that our environment is Gondwanan and that it hasn’t changed much in the last 80 million years. Or if … Read More

Evolution in our changing lands - Infrequently Asked Questions

Lynley Hargreaves • Nov 12, 2015 •

• galaxiid fish,
• gondwana,
• Professor Jon Waters,
• University of Otago

Professor Jon Waters New Zealand has often been pictured as a kind of ‘ark’ of ancient species, isolated and unchanging since our land broke away from Gondwana 80 million years ago. But new Royal Society of New Zealand Fellow Professor Jon Waters, over multiple Marsden Fund grants, has explored the idea that geology is both more and less … Read More