by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 3, 2022 | Editor's pick, Features
The DB Clydesdales have long been an iconic part of rural New Zealand history. This majestic team of horses captured the imagination of people of all ages across the decades but lesser-known was the pioneering family behind this mighty troop. Nick and Jill van der...
by Tony Orman | Mar 3, 2022 | Features
Summer and autumn months are the best time to plan tramping trips in New Zealand. And while the weather is not too hot during autumn – making it ideal for long hikes – winter can come in early, so it’s important to plan wisely, with hut bookings for overnight stops en...
by Katie White | Mar 3, 2022 | Editor's pick, Features
Growing up on his parent’s farm south of Gisborne, Stephen spent summer holidays with his family living in and on the water. “Whether it was fishing, diving, surfing, waterskiing, we were into it,” he says. Before reaching his teens, Stephen remembers enjoying the...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 2, 2022 | News
The Canterbury sea-run salmon fishing season is underway with good numbers of fish seen and being caught, Fish and Game NZ says. This year is the first year of a new freshwater fishing regulation – the sea-run salmon season bag limit. Under the new regulation, anglers...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Feb 28, 2022 | Editor's pick, News
Kaikoura’s three-month pāua gathering season ended at midnight on 28 February after reopening for a limited season on 1 December. The fishery was closed for almost five years following the devastating Kaikōura earthquakes in November 2016. Fisheries New Zealand’s...
by Tony Orman | Feb 10, 2022 | Features, Hunting
A nibbie is an essential item for musterers, particularly in the South Island’s mountain country. Talk to high-country sheep musterers of the old days and high-country farmers today – whether they’re teenagers or in the autumn of their years – the nibbie was and still...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Feb 9, 2022 | News
Nicola Toki has been appointed the new chief executive of Forest & Bird and will begin in April this year, succeeding outgoing chief executive Kevin Hague, who is retiring after six years at the helm of the conservation organisation. Toki will continue to guide...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Feb 3, 2022 | Book reviews, Editor's pick
Pick of the month Trillion TreesFred PearceGranta$36.99Reviewed by Esha Chanda Wherever we look, whether it is the deep Amazon forests or up the Orinoco, we will find human footprints. And while it sounds all doom and gloom, author Fred Pearce is hopeful, for he says...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Feb 3, 2022 | News
A deer management project intended to partially address the gap left by the reduction in wild animal recovery operations (WARO) due to depressed wild venison prices is about to get underway in Fiordland National Park. This new project has been jointly developed by the...
by Esha Chanda | Feb 3, 2022 | Editor's pick, Features
The giant whale tails materialised overnight; 80 in all throughout the city and even over at Waiheke. I’ve spotted two in my home suburb, Te Atatū. They’re big in bright, bold colours and hard to miss. Each tail tells its own tale – of its art and the artist behind it...
