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StuA
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Ex RealTeamHihi from the other place. Photography, Conservation, Mumbling about the government....
The Rapture will not be televised. It will however be appearing on a social media platform near you...
September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Bird wars! As pretty as they are Eastern Rosellas are a pest, so are the flowers the Tūi and Rosella were after (the Taiwan Cherry, you can see the pink flowers at the bottom, super invasive) Rosellas compete with native birds and these two were battling for some time over ownership rights!
August 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Oh well, there goes iNaturalist
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/g... "It turns out people do free work for knowledge because they hold principles and stuff. Many deleted their accounts — which also deletes their observations from iNaturalist — because they didn’t volunteer to feed a lying slop machine that’s an environmental disaster"
Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…
pivot-to-ai.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This was a particularly moving story to shoot, and a genuine privilege to be able to be there. Have a look at the story 🙂

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I had the genuine privilege of shooting the Waikato-Tainui leg of the… | Stuart Attwood
I had the genuine privilege of shooting the Waikato-Tainui leg of the cultural visit of the Wxémalkwu people from Canada arranged by The Nature Conservancy in…
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April 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My sons partner is making a movie! She is very talented and could use a bit of a hand to finance it! Jump on in and help support the arts in NZ! 😀
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Your Turn
Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...
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March 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
When the cat goes adventuring under the house. Deciding whether it looks more like dreadlocks or a lace veil....
March 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Baron Dragonfly, these guys like a warmer climate, there haven't been any sightings recorded in the South Island.
March 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Here's something that Labour can campaign on. @chrishipkins.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Welsh politicians caught lying could lose seats in Senedd
But calls for deception by Senedd members to be made a criminal offence are rejected.
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March 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Amazing footage of a nudibranch eating shrimp, you just cant look away!!!
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ムカデメリベの大きな口というか - A big mouth of Melibe viridis. So I do it,
YouTube video by 新江ノ島水族館公式チャンネル
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January 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Well, this is incredibly cool
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December 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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The new @IPBES report has some jaw-dropping data everywhere, e.g:
>The private sector spends $5.3 trillion/year directly damaging biodiversity
>Government spend $1.7 trillion/year incentivizing destroying biodiversity

We are a self-destructive species

ipbes.canto.de/index_mobile...
December 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM
The Press
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October 3, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Zoo admits that their pandas are ‘painted dogs’ after backlash from visitors www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/p...
Zoo admits that their pandas are actually ‘painted dogs’
‘That’s the Temu version of a panda,’ viewer says
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September 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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New Zealand rushes vaccination of endangered birds before deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu arrives

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New Zealand rushes vaccination of endangered birds before deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu arrives
Small trial on native birds is part of preparations for arrival of deadly strain of H5N1 avian flu, which has not yet been reported in New Zealand
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August 24, 2024 at 7:12 PM
A post from coastal advocate Genevieve Robinson. It is genuinely shocking to see what damage the fishing industry is causing in Aotearoa. I urge you to take a look..
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Genevieve Robinson on LinkedIn: #conservation #fishing #nzcps #policy11 #ecsi
I am currently assessing the bycatch of non-target species listed with MPI and am blown away by the sheer volume of creatures, critters and even coral, that…
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August 23, 2024 at 3:55 AM