The tragic campaign waged at Gallipoli framed new ideals of nationhood, and the way we choose to remember war. Every New Zealander has their own version of this.

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The tragic campaign waged at Gallipoli framed new ideals of nationhood, and the way we choose to remember war. Every New Zealander has their own version of this. There is barely a town or suburb in New Zealand without some form of war memorial—those gateways, cenotaphs, monuments, statues and town halls dedicated to the memory of the fallen can seem almost as numerous as corner dairies or pubs.

Read more our #ANZAC feature at nzgeo.com

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The DSIR and Department of Conservation marshalled their limited resources and chose the battleground – the island of Breaksea. Their opponent – the indomitable rate. Within 21 days they must kill every last one. This is the story of that battle.


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Special Focus: Predator Free

Last year, the government announced a $28-million fund to start a public-private partnership intended to move towards making New Zealand pest free by 2050. It's our biggest conservation project. Will it work?

Swap a national park for an irrigation dam

In February, conservation Minister Maggie Barry took Forest and Bird to the Supreme Court to defend her intention of giving protected conservation land to an irrigation scheme. A year earlier, in February 2016, the High Court gave the Department of Conservation the go-ahead to swap 22 hectares of the Ruahine Forest Park—home to threatened species such as bats and falcons—for 170 hectares that the irrigation scheme’s backers. Is the Department of Conservation allowed to exchange conservation land for farmland?

Nineteen sixty-four

A red-letter year for conservation continues to send ripples around the world. Back in the mid-1900s, conventional conservation wisdom held that predators could never drive a species to extinction, and that once an island was invaded by predators, eliminating them was impossible. Those assumptions were overturned by what occurred on two New Zealand islands 50 years ago.


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Port Hills fires finally extinguished

Fire authorities say the massive blaze that broke out on Christchurch’s Port Hills two months ago, burning through 2000ha of land, is now completely out.
Two separate fires several kilometres apart started on 13 February.

Saturn moon able to 'support life'

Saturn’s ice-crusted moon Enceladus may now be the single best place to go to look for life beyond Earth. The assessment comes on the heels of new observations at the 500km-wide world made by the Cassini probe.

Water fools?–Spray and Pray

In the Rangitikei, it is known colloquially as 'Spray and Pray' – A new practice of un-monitored intensive farming, stripping land of pasture and grazing of stock in mobs. It is uncontrolled and more and more people are worried, including farmers, about what it's doing to waterways.