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Forest & Bird Magazine

As New Zealand’s only magazine dedicated to conservation, Forest & Bird is popular with nature lovers of all ages. It is available in hard copy and digital versions.

Forest & Bird Magazine

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Forest & Bird is a high-quality quarterly publication filled with lively articles about New Zealand’s wildlife and wild places illustrated by leading nature photographers. Our writers love sharing what is special about nature in Aotearoa and why it needs our help to survive and thrive. Keep up to date with Forest & Bird’s work to defend and restore threatened species and their habitats in all corners of the country. Become a member and you will receive a free subscription to Forest & Bird magazine. Click here to join Forest & Bird and help support our vital conservation work.

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We welcome feedback about the magazine and the submission of original story ideas, photographs, and quality writing about any aspect of nature. We sometimes commission articles, illustrations and images, contact the Editor for rates and word counts. If you are a professional writer, graphic designer, or photographer, please consider supporting our conservation work by volunteering to write or illustrate an article in our flagship magazine. To find out more, contact the editor Caroline Wood at editor@forestandbird.org.nz. 

Advertising

You can connect with our nature, travel, and outdoor-loving readers by advertising in Forest & Bird magazine. Every dollar of advertising revenue goes towards supporting conservation work to protect the wildlife you love. As a charity, we rely on donations to be an effective voice for nature. We have a print run of more than 23,000 printed copies per quarter with 90% being directly mailed to our members and supporters. Our readership is 90,000 New Zealanders per quarter plus a growing digital reach. Limited website advertising is also available. To discuss options and rates, contact our advertising manager Karen Condon at karenc@mpm.nz or call 027 542 0338.

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Back issues

You can buy single copies of the magazine from Forest & Bird’s online shop. A digital back catalogue of our magazines from 2005 to 2020 is available for free on issuu.com. Historic magazines from 1923-1945 can be viewed and searched on the National Library’s Papers Past website

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Magazine articles

Blunt umbrellas

Brolly Beautiful

We recently caught up with Greig Brebner, the founder of Blunt Umbrellas, to find out why his company is supporting Forest & Bird’s work.
Toutouwai North Island robin. Image Paul Gibson

Rewilding Te Puna

More than 30 years of volunteer efforts have helped restore the dawn chorus in the Bay of Plenty. by Kate Loman-Smith
Rob Mackley, founder of Active Components

Then and now

The founder of Active Components, Rob Mackley, explains why his company is supporting Forest & Bird’s marine protection work in the Hauraki Gulf.
Lake Hāwea Station. Image supplied

Farming for the planet

The family that pioneered New Zealand’s first carbon-positive farm is also kaitiaki to a critically endangered population of lizards. By Caroline Wood.
Mo Turnbull. Image Samuel Blanc

Our journey to carbon positive

For nearly 25 years, volunteers from Forest & Bird’s Central Otago-Lakes Branch have been looking after an important population of mohua in the ancient beech forests of Makarora.
Lake McKerrow painted by Ernest Chapman in 1924. Credit Alexander Turnbull Library.

Lost world of moa

Gifted to Forest & Bird to stop future development, the Chapman Reserve in Fiordland has an intriguing history. By Michael Pringle
Room for the Waal River in the Netherlands. © Courtesy of Royal HaskoningDHV

Making Room for Rivers

Allowing rivers to move rather than engineering them into artificial channels is a nature-friendly way to reduce flooding. By Tom Kay
Ghost forest North Carolina wetlands, Nags Head Woods NC 2017 CC credit NC wetlands

Time to talk adaptation?

Conservationists are facing difficult questions as nature struggles to survive our warming planet. Should we be thinking about radical adaptation as well as mitigation? By Jane Young
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Nature needs your support

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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Forest & Bird is a registered charitable entity in terms of the Charities Act 2005. Registration No. CC26943.

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