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DOC has just released its annual flock count for the Southern NZ Dotterel, which shows a 19% decline in the estimated population to 101 birds. This follows a 13% decline in bird numbers the previous year.

Retiring MP Dr Nick Smith says he's had privilege and a joy "for all but a few thousand seconds” of an almost 31-year career in politics.

Mountain Scene NZ Nature fund founder: Gibbston vineyard owner Denis Marshall In New Zealand, Denis Marshall’s best known as the Minister of Conservation who resigned after the Cave Creek tragedy. In Queenstown, he’s probably best known as the co-owner of Gibbston’s Hawkshead winery. But, as PHILIP CHANDLER explains, his biggest legacy’s likely to be helping save NZ’s endangered plants and wildlife More than 25 years after resigning as Minister of Conservation, Denis Marshall’s more involved in conservation than ever. He’s just launched the NZ Nature Fund, with ...

Most commentators are talking about 2020 as the year we are glad to put behind us. They say it has been a tough year for business with uncertainty about the economy alongside lockdowns, quarantine isolation and no overseas travel. Most of this negativity about 2020 is from the big capitalists and the middle class. Businesses have been complaining about the damage to profits from lockdowns and the lack of cheap migrant workers to exploit while the middle class have complained about restrictions on overseas travel. But 2020 has had its big positives so let’s celebrate two of them:   The Blac...