By Boyd Wilson in Culture
Issue 3805 4th Apr 2013
Our sturdy Pakeha farming pioneers’ lack of chainsaws, bulldozers, draglines and lethal chemicals permitted some survivals in the ecologies they encountered. Nevertheless, the land changed radically.
By Boyd Wilson in Books
Issue 3791 27th Dec 2012
Rising to the challenge of the high country.
By Boyd Wilson in Books
Issue 3710 18th Jun 2011
The land in these young islands is affected, for better and for worse, by the flora and fauna and tools and techniques brought here by humans. There was, and is, damage wrought by blind greed and inse