Author Archives: Tim Higham
Articles authored by Tim Higham
A lighthouse keeper’s cookbook
Hauraki resident Paul Trevethick reminisces
Well done Burnsco
Burnsco has taken a lead in encouraging responsible use of […]
Clever stuff
Mary Frankham is using social science to fire up conservation.
Second time around
Elisabeth Easther follows in her mother’s trailblazing footsteps
Innovation Awards
World Wildlife Fund’s Conservation Innovation Awards search out the brightest […]
Boil up music video
Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow Abby McBride has created a music video […]
Motutapu re-opens
Motutapu re-opened to the public on Labour Weekend, seven months […]
Young Ocean Explorers expands
Young Ocean Explorers will launch a new website on October […]
Crayfish concern
The Ministry for Primary Industries says it is aware of […]
Marine pests spread
Marine pests appear to be spreading in the Hauraki Gulf. […]
DOC Community Fund opens
The fourth round of the Department of Conservation’s multi-million-dollar fund […]
Rust threatens pohutukawa
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and DOC are working together […]
Hauturu showreel
The Little Barrier Island Supporters Trust has launched a new […]
Tiri helps hihi back
One of New Zealand’s rarest bush birds, the hihi has […]
Dark sky bid
Great Barrier Island has applied to the Arizona-based International Dark-Sky […]
Dolphin release praised
Sanford Ltd has congratulated the skipper of a purse seiner […]
Hauraki seismic research
The Earthquake Commission is funding research to improve the understanding […]
Former Blake boat to visit
The French schooner Tara is coming to New Zealand for […]
Tipping points conference
The Environmental Defence Society will consider tipping points in its […]
Applications for customary marine title
Several applications to seek customary marine title for areas within […]
QE2 covenants pay dividends
A study by the University of Waikato Institute for Business […]
Leaving a legacy
The Auckland Communities Foundation has launched a new website making […]
Penguin Boxes on Great Barrier Island
GIFT fund active
Foundation North’s new Gulf Innovation Fund Together has committed its […]
Bill Ballantine lecture
The second Bill Ballantine Memorial Lecture on Thursday March 2 […]
Freshwater target
The Government has set a new target for the quality […]
New Gulf poster series
A new Explore the Gulf poster series has been produced […]
Point England development
The Local Government and Environment Select Committee is currently considered […]
Holdaways remembered
Friends of Ann Holdaway, who passed away on 11 January […]
Barrier penguin boxes
Great Barrier Island’s penguins will be better off thanks to […]
Te Reo App popular
Have trouble pronouncing Māori words? A new Department of Conservation […]
Community work boosted
More Coromandel brown kiwi will be introduced to Motutapu Island, […]
Seabird slaughter
The Department of Conservation is concerned that protected seabirds have […]
Biodiversity stocktake
The Waikato Regional Council has published a stocktake of information […]
Gulf book popular
Raewyn Peart’s book The Story of the Hauraki Gulf, launched […]
Gulf geographic
A talk by NZ Geographic magazine founder Kennedy Warne at […]
Pioneering TV revisited
The ground-breaking Islands of the Gulf TV series made in […]
Marine farming tender
Waikato Regional Council has opened the tender round for 240 […]
Sanctuary additions
Shakespear Open Sanctuary is due to receive 40 little spotted […]
Marine reserve report cards
The Department of Conservation is publishing report cards to provide […]
Rakitu Island eradication
The Department of Conservation expects to undertake a pest eradication […]
Sea Change plan available
A Hauraki Gulf / Tikapa Moana marine spatial plan launched […]
Life imitates art
Tim Higham shoots a squid, then has second thoughts
Kaiaua clean up
Coastal erosion eating away at an old tip at Kaiaua […]
Snapper plan accepted
A long-term plan for future management of the Bay of […]
Gecko return
For the first time in a century, the Duvaucel’s gecko […]
Takahē reach 300
Hauraki Gulf islands have helped takahē numbers to reach 300 […]
International waters edge perspective
Panuku Development Auckland hosted a meeting of global waterfront development […]
Whale protocol working
A voluntary protocol which asks ships to slow down to […]
Support for GIFT
Foundation North has signed a memorandum of understanding with Auckland […]
Where are the little fish?
NIWA scientists are asking for help from people who have […]
Marine environment report
The Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand released […]
Great Barrier investments
Great Barrier Island has a new Department of Conservation base […]
Biodiversity Action Plan
New Zealand has a new action plan setting targets for […]
Fisheries future
The Ministry for Primary Industries released a consultation document ‘The […]
Meri Kirihimete
The Million Metres Streams Project is offering a Christmas present […]
Motutapu events
This year’s Partners Life DUAL triathlon, marathon, mountain bike, 10km […]
Story of the Gulf
A new coffee table book on the ecological history of […]
Crayfish decline further
Recent surveys have shown crayfish numbers declining inside and outside […]
GIFT for Gulf
Funding agency Foundation North has announced a $5 million fund […]
Predator free vision
The Government has plans to make New Zealand predator free […]
Biodiversity forum
Minister for the Environment Dr Nick Smith has announced a […]
Snapper
A new draft plan for the long-term management of the […]
Hauturu plan
The public has until October 11 to submit on a […]
Common dolphin estimate
A recent thesis has provided the first population estimate of […]
Fishing for the Future
A new report published by Fulbright New Zealand suggests a […]
Spotted shag refuge
Surveys of parekareka/ spotted shags by Auckland Council show the […]
Waiheke marae
Carvings and tukutuku panels produced over the past 15 years […]
GBI sanctuary expands
Great Barrier Island’s Windy Hill Sanctuary area has grown by […]
Land use guide
Auckland Council has recently revised its Erosion and Sediment Control […]
Citizen Science Inventory
NZ Landcare Trust has launched a national inventory of citizen […]
Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora
A unique multi-sector collaborative group has recently finalised a proposed […]
Do the right thing
The 2016 Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Seminar asks what it […]
Catch reconstruction
The total amount of marine fish caught in New Zealand […]
Gulf knights
Two ‘friends of the Gulf’ have received knighthoods in the […]
Great Mercury/Ahuahu pest free
Great Mercury/Ahuahu was declared pest free by the Department of […]
Trees on Maungakiekie
Three young tōtara and six pohutukawa were planted in a […]
Climate change resource
The New Zealand Coastal Society has published Adapting to the […]
Robins return
The birdsong of the native North Island robin or toutouwai […]
Lift by waka
Three of the North Island’s rarest kiwi caught a waka […]
Green winner
Te Whangai Trust was the Supreme Winner at the 2016 […]
Funds for conservation
Groups have until 1 July to apply to a multi-million […]
Aotea Track re-opens
Great Barrier Island Aotea Track has re-opened. The three-to-four track […]
Glenfern purchased
The purchase of the 83ha Glenfern Sanctuary on Great Barrier, […]
Mauri baseline
Restoration of mauri and ecosystem functioning on lands managed by […]
Argentine ants gone
After 16 years of work by Department of Conservation staff […]
Tamaki clean up
Watercare Harbour Clean-Up Trust and volunteers from Spark collected 5000 […]
Drone captures whales
Auckland University of Technology researchers have used drones to capture […]
Haere Mai Tāiko
All seabirds are precious taonga to Ngati Rehua-Ngatiwai ki Aotea people and even more so the tāiko who breed exclusively on our sacred maunga Hirakimata and Hauturu-a-toi. We want to ensure that the last remaining colonies of tāiko are protected to ensure they remain part of our natural heritage and legacy for all future generations of New Zealanders.
Waka return
Waka racing has returned to the Waitematā. The inaugural Tāmaki […]
Wet, fun and good
A new social enterprise has been established to support marine […]
Co-governance review
The Auditor-General has released a report identifying principles for effective […]
Navigation safety review
A review of coastal navigation safety by Maritime NZ has […]
Whale and dolphin alert
Boaties are being urged to show more care after several […]
Hauraki Gulf Seabird Identification Guide
Forest & Bird has produced a new guide to the […]
Fishers like selfies
Snapper longline fishers in northern New Zealand want to show […]
Revival going viral
A new video explaining the Revive our Gulf project’s work […]
Hunua birds thrive
Dozens of kōkako chicks have hatched in the Hunua Ranges, […]
Biking to Kaiaua
Work on the second stage of the popular Hauraki Rail […]
Iconic posters
The sixth series of Hauraki Gulf Marine Park posters featuring […]