Last century, firearms flooded into New Zealand with returning servicemen, and during peacetime guns became synonymous with an honest, healthy way of life in the hills. Now, there are thought to be 1.5 million firearms in New Zealand—one for every three people—used as conservation or farming tools, or simply for sport. To some, firearms symbolise self-sufficiency and responsibility. To others, they’ll never be more than instruments of death. But is this issue as clear-cut as it seems?


	Why do we have so many guns? Last century, firearms flooded into New Zealand with returning servicemen, and during peacetime guns became synonymous with an honest, healthy way of life in the hills. Now, there are thought to be 1.5 million firearms in New Zealand—one for every three people—used as conservation or farming tools, or simply for sport. To some, firearms symbolise self-sufficiency and responsibility. To others, they’ll never be more than instruments of death. But is this issue as clear-cut as it seems?


	Brothers and sisters What it's like to be a Muslim in New Zealand, from those affected by the Christchurch terrorist attack a year ago. Journalist Anke Richter continued to follow one of the young men featured in New Zealand Geographic and recently wrote about his quest to become a police officer.

No more blame

As social researchers seek ways to defuse hostility towards “outgroups”, one United States study has found a simple means to get people to rethink their attitudes towards, in this case, Muslims.

Aotearoa's ark

As some humans ponder their own extinction, others are figuring out the best places to run when the bomb drops, or the power goes off, or the supermarkets shut their doors.

A new study rates the appeal of the world’s islands as sanctuaries from a catastrophe such as a global pandemic.

Singing in the same tune

Picture the moa. Over the last decade, genetic and skeletal evidence has begun to trace its family tree back to the age of the dinosaurs.