Rewilding In Action
Learn about their hands-on work, and explore the thinking behind nature-led regeneration with Dr Maureen Howard
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
23 - Wild Gardening for Invertebrates
You don’t need hectares of land to rewild! Rewilding can go as small as you like and the urban garden is a perfect example. Join me, Maureen Howard as I chat with my guest, insect behavioural ecologi…
00:26:31 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
22 - Protected Forever
Show 22 - Protected Forever - One key thing that the landowners I’ve interviewed so far on Rewilding in action have in common is an open space QEII covenant on their land. Join me, Maureen Howard as…
00:26:29 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
21 - A Kākā Comeback
Is your garden ready for a kākā visit? With increased predator control across Dunedin we are starting to experience more native birds, including kākā, in our backyards. Join Maureen Howard, as she vi…
00:26:46 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
20 - United by a Stream Gully
Rewilding requires ecological corridors to connect ecologically significant habitats. However in urban areas, native forest remnants are often isolated from one another, surrounded by multiple lando…
00:26:40 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
19 - Rewilding: Past, Present and Future
How can looking to the past, present and future help guide our rewilding goals? Join me, Maureen Howard as I chat with my guest Associate Professor Michael Knapp from the Department of Anatomy at Ota…
00:24:45 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Rewilding In Action Replay - 05 - Spongy Urban Gardens Rich in Wildlife
Please enjoy this replay from October 2024
Climate change and biodiversity loss often go hand in hand - but fortunately so do the solutions. In this episode of Rewilding in Action I visit the garden…
00:26:43 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Rewilding In Action Replay - 04 - Te Ao Māori vision of Rewilding
Please enjoy this replay from October 2024
Could the plaintive calls of Buff Weka once again be heard across the Otago Peninsula? It’s already a special refuge – for breeding penguins like hoiho and…
00:26:35 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Rewilding In Action Replay - 10 - Farming and Wildlife - A No Brainer
Please enjoy this replay from January 2025
In this episode of Rewilding in Action, host Maureen Howard is back on Otago Peninsula again to meet with Paula Cross who along with her husband Brendan fa…
00:27:19 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Rewilding In Action Replay - 08 - Healthy Rivers Flood
Please enjoy this replay from December 2024
Should we rewild rivers - when floods can bring damage to property and sometimes loss of life? In this episode I chat with my guest river scientist Profes…
00:26:33 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Rewilding In Action - 18 - Sealions and Muehlenbeckia: Rewilding Together
Muehlenbeckia australis has a reputation as an invasive vine. On the other hand it is a native that can benefit rare species such as the local pakake / sealion population. Today we’re headed to the h…
00:26:08 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Rewilding In Action - 17 - Trapping Rodents on Quarantine Island - Jim Fyfe and Claire Hagglund
17 - Trapping Rodents on Quarantine Island - Find out what happened to the mice population on Quarantine Island in Otago Harbour when Norway rats were successfully suppressed. Learn how the stewards …
00:26:23 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Rewilding In Action - 16 - Fight Fire with a Green Firebreak - Dr Tim Curran
When forests are young, flammable species like manuka, kanuka and gorse dominate. To reduce the risk of fire, an effective tool is to plant a native green firebreak between our homes and our naturall…
00:27:02 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Rewilding In Action - 15 - From Gold to Green: Growing a native forest through gorse
When conditions are right, gorse can be a good friend to native forest - acting as a nursery crop for natural native forest regeneration. How does it do it? What native plants come through the gorse?…
00:26:26 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Rewilding In Action - 14 - Comparing a Miyawaki Microforest with Natural Native Forest Regeneration
The Miyawaki approach involves densely planting a comprehensive variety of eco-sourced native forest plants into enriched soil to grow plants faster. How does it compare with standard planting or nat…
00:27:31 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Rewilding In Action - 13 - Feeding Wild Birds Sugar Water: Time for a Rethink
Tui, korimako/bellbirds and tauhou/silvereyes are much loved gardens birds. By consuming the nectar of native plants they are also important pollinators for rewilding our native forests. Is it a good…
00:26:58 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Rewilding In Action - 12 - On the Home Run - Phil Seddon and Paula Cross
Could this be the year the last possum on the Otago Peninsula is caught? And can we really know? In this episode of Rewilding in Action, host Maureen Howard interviews reintroduction biologist Profes…
00:27:05 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Rewilding In Action - 11 - Rabbits Gone Bush - John and Moira Parker
Rabbits wrecking havoc on native bush is a reality on the Otago Peninsula. In this episode of Rewilding in Action, host Maureen Howard visits John and Moira Parker to find out how this couple managed…
00:27:22 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Rewilding In Action - 10 - Farming and Wildlife - A No Brainer
In this episode of Rewilding in Action, host Maureen Howard is back on Otago Peninsula again to meet with Paula Cross who along with her husband Brendan farm 880 ha of the predominantly steep hill co…
00:27:12 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Rewilding In Action - 09 - Dispatching Pest Plants
SWAT (Seek Weeds and Terminate) comprise around 10 volunteers who visit properties across the Otago Peninsula to dispatch pest plants from native forest remnants. In this episode I join them on their…
00:26:45 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
Rewilding In Action - 08 - Healthy Rivers Flood
Should we rewild rivers - when floods can bring damage to property and sometimes loss of life? In this episode I chat with my guest river scientist Professor Gary Brierley about the importance of see…
00:26:27 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
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