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For a long time it was a good place to be an endangered skink—a vertical sheet of rock at the head of Milford Sound/Piopiotahi, too snowy and steep for mice to bother with. But as the climate warms, the mice are moving in. For the skinks, it’s now a race to evacuate.
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How do you say goodbye to a life’s work? John McArthur, a butterfly aficionado who is donating his life's collection of 20,000 butterflies to the Natural History Museum in London.
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A vicious strain of myrtle rust is burning through our bush. Dozens of native species—and the ecosystems they support—are at risk. Scientists think we have three, maybe four years before the biggest pōhutukawa start to fall.
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In Lake Wānaka the Australasian crested grebe reigns supreme from a flotilla of nesting platforms strung close to shore. The birds love the platforms. The locals love the birds. But the man who started it all worries the project could be doing more harm than good.
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For a long time it was a good place to be an endangered skink—a vertical sheet of rock at the head of Milford Sound/Piopiotahi, too snowy and steep for mice to bother with. But as the climate warms, the mice are moving in. For the skinks, it’s now a race to evacuate.
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