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The Long Reach of the Poor Knights

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Long before I moved in New Zealand, or visited or even knew much about the wildlife here, way back then I knew about the Poor Knights. The Poor Knights certainly lived up to their reputation, and to my mind are arguably an essential stop on a visit to New Zealand, even if you only came looking for wildlife of the feathered kind.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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He is a writer and communicator whose day jobs have taken him to six continents and more than 25 countries, including Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kenya, and Cameroon. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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Violent Earth

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I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct the land life on New Zealand has been mostly harmless. The aforementioned Kauri in turn used these islands to reach places like Vanuatu. Kiwi, oddly, are actually thought to have flow here too.