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Dzanga Bai – where everyone gets along..
Ten metres below, an elephant is blowing bubbles. One of a group of 12 dusty brown forest elephants, she is relaxing at the salt mud flats at Dzangha Bai. I have just walked and waded for half an hour through the forest led to this Bai ( a grassy clearing within the forest) the centre…
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Why not go to Central African Republic?
Its 4am and a dark, rainy night in Paihia. What began as a ‘well why not’ moment – looking after pangolins in Central Africa – is now a looming reality, and face-to-face with my own vulnerability in the dark of the night, I’m wide awake and I’m scared. My past two weeks have been not…
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ZERO WASTE ALONG THE TWIN COAST CYCLE TRAIL?
Email Monday 20th March to Hon John Carter QSO, Mayor Far North District Council Dear John The Cycle Way is awesome! I loved riding it on Saturday, as did the friend I roped in who hadn’t been on a bike for years! I’m now looking forward to my daughters, son-in-law and visitors from overseas riding…
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WASTE-FREE IN THE FAR NORTH?
‘Humanity has developed a very deep ability to push devastating information about the impacts of our actions into our subconscious and this is a danger. We are numbing ourselves to this life going out’. …
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ROADSIDE CANS & BOTTLES – ARE WE STUCK?
THE NATURAL WORLD – SACRED OR SECULAR? I’m cycling the beautiful Taranaki Surf Highway, pondering how car drivers feel okay tossing out their trash. ‘Do they believe it miraculously disintegrates? Or feel they are kindly creating jobs for others to search for litter in roadside drains? Perhaps its just that well-engineered, hermetically sealed and air-conditioned…
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