by F&O NEWS DESK | May 3, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting, News
After losing out on the last hunting season due to COVID-19 restrictions, hunters are gearing up this year, with hunting prospects looking promising. Maimais have been spruced up, decoys are in order, and, more importantly, licenses have been secured for the season....
by Tony Orman | Apr 16, 2021 | Features, Hunting
Deaths of hunters during the popular autumn hunting period may, on analysis, reveal more than just a hunter’s misjudgement and wrong identification of a movement in the bush. It is this aiming and firing at ‘a movement in the bush’ that gives a strong clue to the...
by Esha Chanda | Apr 7, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features
The impetus behind such ‘tiny’ movements, whether it’s homes (that we spoke about a few issues ago) or in this case forests, is the same – to offer a sustainable solution for our planet. This marvellous blue marble we call Earth is burning, and as cities spread its...
by Lisa Potter | Mar 12, 2021 | Events, Features
It was anything but a quiet weekend on Lake Karapiro at the recent 2021 Hydro Thunder GP Hydroplane Series and 96th Masport Cup. The deafening roar of high-octane action shattered the usually hushed lakeside as cheering crowds and fans screamed out their encouragement...
by Ben Hope | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
It was just going to be an evening hunt, but it inadvertently ended up being an overnight trip. It so happened just a few years ago on an overcast autumn evening, I was headed up into the hills on a high-country station to photograph a stag. My Labrador and I...
by Lisa Potter | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features
Sarni Hart was once an Auckland city dweller. But a desire to give her three young children more of a ‘great Kiwi outdoors’ upbringing saw her up sticks and move across the water to Coromandel, taking a puntthat they would all adapt to small-town living. Having...
