Stories by Kate Gudsell

A growing number of community conservationists are confronting New Zealand's declining biodiversity. But, Kate Gudsell asks, are their efforts happening in place of official work?

Irrigation accounts for 75 percent of the water taken from New Zealand's waterways, of that figure a staggering 63 percent is taken in Canterbury.

It's a fact known all too well by locals in the…

It's the closest thing New Zealand has to a desert. The Mackenzie Basin landscape is not replicated anywhere else in the country, let alone the world, and it is being changed irreversibly.

Not just… Video

In the Rangitikei, it is known coloquially as 'spray and pray' - a new practice of un-monitored, intensive farming, stripping land of pasture and grazing stock in mobs. Video