Discover why ‘The Devil’s Sea’ off the south coast of Japan is so extraordinarily deadly and decide for yourself if this stretch of water could be the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific.
Crayfish, Lobster or Langouste whatever the name, it is among the most sought after animals in the sea, but surprisingly little is known of the life of crayfish on the reef.
A permaculture haven in a farm desert.
South of the Poor Knights stand a crop of rocky spires called The Pinnacles. Under the largest is a cathedral-like cavern called Tie Dye Arch, named for the kaleidoscope of colours that clad every surface like graffiti.
Northern Arch is a 40-metre-deep cut in a sheer rock wall at the northern end of the Poor Knights. Like a busy city alley it attracts hoards of life—thousands of fish.
Fishing effort, day after day, century after century, has changed the shape of this place. It’s still heaving with reef fish, but the predators are gone. It’s still resplendent with sargassum weed, but kina that were once devoured by snapper and other reef predators are tearing holes through the fabric of the ecosystem.
Welcome to the aquarium.
Can you spot a silvereye in your backyard?
Final presentation for the Photo Aotearoa photojournalism workshop, hosted at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngāruawāhia, May 2022. Edited by Melanie Burford. Photographed by Edith Amituanai, Te Rawhitiroa Bosch, Tatsiana Chypsanava, Mattheus Elwood, Tash Hopkins, Jodie James, Rachel Mataira, Joshua McCormack, Adrian Malloch, Andrew MacDonald, Cameron James McLaren, Becki Moss, Vanessa Parker, Ralph Piezas, Mike Scott, Erica Sinclair, Scott Sinton, Aaron Smale, Maine Tito, Dominico Zapata and Julie Zhu.
Explore a Snares-crested penguin colony with 360 video.
The story of the pioneering research into the mind of one of the most dangerous yet perhaps the most intelligent of all sharks... The Mako.
Promiscuous, incestuous and homosexual, our native swamp hen is a rather remarkable bird. At Western Springs Wetlands, deep in Auckland’s western suburbs, two families of pukeko carry on their very communal lifestyle in an entirely natural way – despite pressures from other birds, and hand-outs of stale bread and buns.
New Zealand is home to a variety of remarkable plants and animals; among them species like the Tuatara and Weta, the Kauri and the Kiwi.
An ecosystem in balance is marked by diversity and abundance. An ecosystem out of balance is a desert of monotony. Here at Nordic Reef, snapper populations have been depleted by overfishing, kina populations have exploded and devoured all the kelp, sponges and algae.
A Leigh Fisheries longliner reels in a catch with practiced efficiency. Target species—such as snapper—go to the fish bin and then to market, and a flick of the wrist dispatches non-target species back into the sea.
New Zealand’s Poor Knights Islands is considered one of the world’s top dive sites and for good reason, with a rich collection of extraordinary characters and bizarre behaviors, including a unique congregation of stingrays and sex-changing Sandagers Wrasse.
A techno-tale of courage, tragedy, brilliance and the hard, hard work of massive machines and determined people on one of the world’s toughest construction projects.
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