Coming up this week, two stories for you:
🦆 Sam The Trap Man chats about Eastern Whio Link, a trapping project led by hunters, fishers and mana whenua to protect the whio blue ducks of Waioeka Gorge.
🦠 Claire meets a University of Canterbury researcher studying extreme life on the slopes of an active volcano in Antarctica.
Tune in on Thursday! Antarctica New Zealand
📷: Stephen Noell / Sam Gibson
Coming up this week, Claire pops into the Tairāwhiti Environment Centre and Gizzy Kai Rescue to learn about their mahi minimising waste ♻
Listen on Thursday!
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Claire meets a team testing smart traps and AI to control predators in rugged terrain and thick bush.
Listen on Thursday.
📷: Southern Lakes Sanctuary
Coming up this week: startling new research on methane seeps in Antarctica has potential implications for our climate change accounting.
Claire Concannon reports – tune in on Thursday.
Antarctica New Zealand NIWA New Zealand
📷: Leigh Tait
Coming up this week: tuatara are "living fossils", the last surviving species of an order of reptiles that walked with dinosaurs.
Claire Concannon heads to Auckland Zoo to meet a University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau researcher investigating the microbes that live in the tuatara's gut – are there bacterial living fossils waiting to be discovered?
Tune in on Thursday.
Coming up this week, dive under the sea ice with us in Antarctica to investigate mysterious glass sponges ❄️ and the role they play in this otherworldly ecosystem.
Tune in on Thursday!
Antarctica New Zealand
📷: Ian Hawes
Coming up this week, an episode from the ABC's Pacific Scientific series taking you inside a secretive lab where Samoa's scientists are unlocking the power of plants 🌿🧪
Tune in on Thursday.
📷: Shelby Traynor ABC Science
Coming up this week, Veronika Meduna joins the inaugural Tairāwhiti Ngutukākā Festival.
Here, the community is turning State Highway 35 into a Crimson Highway, by rewilding an iconic red-flowered native considered 'Nationally Critical'.
Tune in on Thursday!
Tairāwhiti Ngutukākā - East Coast Kakabeak
Coming up this week, scientists at Plant & Food Research have devised a clever way to control invasive redback spiders – and it starts with concocting spider perfume 🕸️
Listen on Thursday to hear what it takes to look after 800 venomous spiders 🕷️ and how the researchers are pinpointing a redback's signature scent
📷: © Plant & Food Research
Coming up this week, Claire Concannon heads to Gisborne where the Mātai Medical Research Institute is making world-leading advances in MRI techniques 🧠
Listen on Thursday to hear about their big plans to grow an innovation centre for New Zealand.
Coming up this week, Claire Concannon heads to the Catlins with conservationists battling weeds, predators and browsers to protect the bush, wetlands and wildlife in Lenz Reserve.
Tune in on Thursday to learn about their efforts, and the endearing South Island fernbird 🪶
Forest & Bird Forest And Bird - South Otago
📷: Craig McKenzie
Coming up this week, Alison Ballance shares some concerning new research about the health risks associated with lead bullets.
Listen on Thursday.
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