envirohistory NZ
Online forum
This online forum explores New Zealand’s fascinating and insightful environmental history through short articles, reader contributions and comments. It stems from the recognition that, to understand the environmental issues we are facing today, it is essential to understand our environmental past.
The primary contributor to the website is an environmental historian and researcher based in Kapiti, and many of the environmental histories featured on the website are about places in this region.
Dates and times: Anytime, anywhere
Location: In offices and living rooms everywhere!
Contact: Catherine Knight, 021 0270 4400, envirohistorynz@gmail.com    http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com

and also

read:     http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/kapiti-island-a-microcosm-of-environmental-history-part-1/
and:      http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/kapiti-island-part-2/

read:       http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/views-of-kapiti-1-swamp-road-otaki/

read:       http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/totara-reserve-from-exploitation-to-conservation/#more-381

and also Online:

Waikanae River wetland restoration:       http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/views-of-kapiti-2-waikanae-river-wetland-restoration/

The Case of the Disappearing River:                   http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/the-mysterious-case-of-the-disappearing-river/

Nga Manu Nature Reserve:             http://envirohistorynz.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/a-kapiti-environmental-history-nga-manu-nature-reserve/