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Mohua at Anchor Island
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Forest & Bird Magazine

For nearly 100 years, Forest & Bird has published a popular quarterly magazine especially for our members.

Our magazine

Forest & Bird is a quality, full-colour publication brimming with interesting articles about Aotearoa’s flora and fauna illustrated by some of New Zealand’s leading wildlife photographers. Discover the latest news about our conservation work, campaigns, frontline projects, and the people behind them. It’s a must-read for anyone with an interest in New Zealand nature.

If you would like to receive Forest & Bird in your mailbox every quarter, click here to join Forest & Bird and feel good knowing you are helping to support our vital conservation work.

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Get in touch

Do you have any story ideas or great photos? Contact our editor Caroline Wood at editor@forestandbird.org.nz or c.wood@forestandbird.org.nz.

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If you wish to advertise in the Forest & Bird magazine, contact Karen Condon at karenc@mpm.nz or call 027 542 0338.

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Back catalogue

Read about Forest & Bird's work and latest campaigns in our quarterly magazine. A back catalogue of our magazines from 2005 is available on Issuu.com

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Magazine articles

Algal blooms surround Lake Erie (Canada and USA) - image from space

Bloomin' Algae

We should be doing better when it comes to controlling pollution in our waterways. By Forest & Bird freshwater advocate Tom Kay. 
Sooty Shearwater (tītī) in flight over water

Bring back the seabirds

Life at the conservation coalface isn’t always simple, as Caroline Wood finds out when she visits a Forest & Bird seabird project on the Otago Peninsula.

This isn’t a walk in the park, I reflect, as I struggle to keep on my feet while scrambling up
Banded dotterel/pohowera standing on a small mound on the beach

Bird Atlas needs you

Birds New Zealand is embarking on the country’s largest ever citizen-science project to map the distribution and abundance of New Zealand birds.

The New Zealand Bird Atlas 2019–2024 is an ambitious five-year initiative to map the country’s unique birdl
Musicians Emily and Charles Looker from pop band Aro

Manu Magic

We talk to Aro about their album celebrating Aotearoa’s wonderful birdlife.

Emily and Charles Looker, who make up the pop duo Aro, have released their album called Manu inspired by the melodies, rhythms, and stories of Aotearoa’s native birds.
emale long-tailed bat with a tiny radio transmitter on its back being held entirely within someone's hands

How to catch a bat

Laura Keown heads to Forest & Bird’s bat recovery project in Marlborough to learn how to trap and tag a long-tailed bat – in the name of conservation of course!

I was brimming with anticipation when four of us set off to check bat traps before da
Rock wren sitting on a rock eating a bug

Warming Forests

As native forests warm, ship rats will move into new areas. Lynley Hargreaves investigates what that will mean for New Zealand’s most precious “deep endemics” such as mohua and kiwi.
12 species of fungi to guess

Fungi fun quiz

The fungi fun quiz featured in the Autumn 2019 issue of the Forest & Bird magazine.  Sign up as a Forest & Bird member to receive your copy (in print or digital). 
Bathurst's open cast Takitimu coal mine in Southland

A Wicked Problem

The time is right for New Zealand to turn its back on coal mining but will it?
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Supporting Forest & Bird is one of the best things you can do for New Zealand's environment. We need people like you to support us, so that nature will always have a voice.

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