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The black and the green

It was a fond walk down memory lane in and around Lake Manapouri last weekend. The Guardians of Lake Manapouri held a celebration weekend to mark...

Climate scientists and other notables also want the the general election to be a "climate election", noting it would be a mistake to emerge from the cyclone clinging to the past.

Tens of thousands of hectares of indigenous forests, scrub and shrublands have been lost over the last 30 years. A string of threats loom over what remains.

'Unpleasant' smell leads gardener to blood-red fungus 11 Jan, 2021 09:00 PM 2 minutes to read Otago Daily Times A devilish diffusion of festering flesh hit the nostrils of a Manapouri man mowing his lawn at the weekend. The culprit; a blood-red, fly-attracting native fungus known as devil's fingers (Clathrus archeri). However, when Aaron Nicholson stumbled across the fungus he did not know what it was and took to social media to identify it. He had seen the specimen several years before in the same spot at the Manapouri Motels & Holiday Park, but had assumed it was a flower dropped by a guest...