by George Driver | Jun 23, 2023 | Features, North & South
Beneath famously dry Central Otago are the remains of an enormous, ancient subtropical lake that was once home to crocodilians, turtles, giant parrots, bipedal vampire bats and palm trees. The kilometre-thick layer of lake bed is helping to unravel the mystery of...
by George Driver | May 23, 2023 | Features, North & South
Forty years ago the world’s rarest wading bird, the kakī/ black stilt, teetered on the brink of extinction with just 23 birds left. Its survival has depended on one of the most intensive and successful captive rearing programmes in the country. Will it be enough to...
by George Driver | Apr 22, 2023 | Features, North & South
Sir Michael Hill was a high-school dropout muso before he became one of the country’s most successful businessmen. While he gave up on his own musical aspirations, for the last 22 years he’s been on a mission to find the world’s best young...
by George Driver | Mar 23, 2023 | Features, North & South
Lyttelton has a population of 3000, but probably has more award-winning musicians per capita than anywhere in the country. George Driver travels to the port town to find out why… Read...
by George Driver | Jan 25, 2023 | Features, North & South
In 2019, at the peak of an unprecedented tourism boom, visitors were wearing out the country’s welcome mat. When New Zealand’s borders closed in March 2020, the government was faced with both an industry in freefall and a blank canvas for change. As international...
