There are more whio (blue ducks; hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) on our banknotes than in the wild.
Read MoreThinking About the Property Rights in Resource Decisions As Well As Transaction Costs.
Conservation
Nature and its terrifying power
Yesterday was a reminder of just who is in charge. It’s not us.
Read MoreThe Amazon burns; is New Zealand fiddling?
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has a list of excuses for the Amazon fires that threaten ‘the lungs of the world’… and they won’t be unfamiliar to those debating the environment here in New Zealand
Read MoreWas it Really a Wellbeing Budget?
If the Government is serious about redirecting policy towards wellbeing, it is going to have to do a lot more than making the odd statement in the budget.
Read More'Solar tax' makes it's harder to be green. For now
A solar tax makes it harder to go green in the short term, but could drive more customers off grid as the appeal of solar power grows
Read MoreFlagging Design
The flag debate tells us something about the quality of design in New Zealand
Read MoreLeading the charge to develop a soil carbon policy
New Zealand's unusual carbon profile marks it apart from other countries trying to lower greenhouse emissions
Read MoreGreenhouse gases and growing pains
Economic productivity and population growth have impacted New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions
Read MoreWhat drought really means for New Zealand
As we head into another drier-than-normal season, New Zealand needs to put more thought into water management
Read MoreConservation's changing climate
With world leaders failing and New Zealand ranked in the bottom five of the world's worst emitters for climate policy response, conservation campaigners have to think differently about ways to help nature weather the coming storm
Read MoreSeabed mining: drums in the deep
The Environmental Protection Agency hearing into seabed mining for phosphate on the Chatham Rise is exposing questions about uncertainty - many big unknowns, including whether the applicant has done its job. If environment groups win this battle, what does it mean for the wider war?
Read MoreDirty dairying inspires a common-sense approach from the politicians
Dealing to dirty dairying is an issue that the three major parties fundamentally agree on. Is a parliamentary accord on protecting our waterways next?
Read MoreMuddying the nation's waterways
The biggest problem muddying New Zealand's waterways is not farming, it's misinformation
Read MoreEconomy v Environment: Is fewer cows really the answer?
There's plenty of evidence that more farm production could actually help, not harm, efforts to protect the environment
Read MoreThe New Zealand story: 100% pooer!
In 2012, National Ministers’ environment choices left us 100% poorer - or pooer, in the case of our impure, faecally-contaminated rivers
Read MoreThe Exclusive Economic Zone: for sale
In which the government invites anyone who can pay enough into our offshore marine environment. The Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill does not "protect and preserve" the environment. It states its price
Read MoreConservation lands: resources, naturally?
All of the government’s signs are pointing the same way: relocating conservation and the Department of Conservation within the “natural resources” sector, the better to “streamline and simplify” its activities
Read MoreMine | No mine: the fight for Denniston
The fight over the different kinds of wealth on the “impoverished” Denniston plateau is about more than just Denniston. Chances are, it could finish in the Supreme Court
Read MoreA dawn chorus, for Forest & Bird
In which I introduce myself to Forest & Bird ... but since it all started here on Pundit, here's the scoop ...
Read MoreAnother coal hole, another snail fail
Are national parks the things we have when we can’t find anything else to do with them? The Denniston mining proposal is like the Schedule 4 mining proposal, with bonus snails
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