When a lake looks like a tropical island 😍🤩😍
📍Kai Iwi Lakes, Northland, NZ
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Morning walk 💙
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Matai Grove info by local council TDC.
Woody vines smothering tree
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That matai trunk took 2 people to encircle!
Check the size and age of these magnificent coniferous trees in the info panel!
Bonus: a tree with woody vines/lianas - very common in Aotearoa bush.
Stick insect on deck close-up
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"these strange insects are well camouflaged. They look like twigs or leaves, and during the day they stay still or sway like foliage in the wind. Although hard to see, some species are common in gardens throughout New Zealand."
A pōhutukawa tree hangs over bush, framing the blue sky with fluffy, white clouds, the sea, beach and land in the background, and a walkway with people on it in the foreground in Napier, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Paradise 💙 So grateful to live here
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Health checks on our newly released Tuatara, Tuatara or Sphenodon punctatus are the last surviving species in their order, Rhynchocephalia, an order that once made up the majoraty of small reptiles during the jurassic period. #🌏 #Aotearoa #NZconservation #nznature #sanctuariesofnz
Some recent work on paper.
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Kakariki karaka (orange-fronted parakeet) from New Zealand is critically endangered (about 300 to 450 in the wild). They are under threat from introduced mammalian predators. These guys are safe inside a 14km pest-proof fence. #addbirder #thebrookwaimāramasanctuary #NZnature
Ngāokeoke/NZ peripatus - Often called "living fossils," they are thought to have existed for over 500 million years, making them a window into early evolutionary history.
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Cathedral Cove isn't your average beach.
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A view of the lush, green Waitakere Ranges, overlooking Manakau Harbour in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
The white trunk and lower leaves of Tāne Mahuta kauri tree, Waipoua Forest, Aotearoa New Zealand.
📷 Paying my respects to Tāne Mahuta, “god of the forest.” The largest living kauri tree (height: 45.2m/148ft; trunk volume 255.5 m3/9020 cu ft), it’s estimated to be about 2,000 years old. 🌳
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Fur seals frolic at Oahu Point, just north of Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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