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Vital Kiwi News @vitalkiwinews.bsky.social helping you follow vital kiwi news*
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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social Award runner upping wildlife photographer in Aotearoa.
© Enzo Giordani 2026 – Please ask before using my photos
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https://birds.photos/
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
NZ Earthquake Bot @nzquake.bsky.social New Zealand earthquake feed (unofficial). Posts whenever GeoNet reports a decent sized quake (a few times per week). Maintained by @slyall.bsky.social
Tony Whitehead @whytednz.bsky.social New Zealand nature photographer with an inordinate fondness for birds balancing the stresses of a profession as a rural Family Physician/Skin Cancer Doctor. Follow my blog for a weekly post on something photographic.
www.tonywhitehead.com
Judi Lapsley Miller @artbyjlm.com Artist, Scientist, Conservationist. The wearer of many hats. Mad about parrots. YMMV
www.artbyjlm.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6020-4254
Zoology Department, University of Otago @zoologyotago.bsky.social A page for past and present students to keep informed about what is currently happening in Zoology at Otago.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/zoology 
Conservation Biology @conbiology.bsky.social Flagship journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. Applied science for scientists, managers, practitioners, decision makers. Editor: Mark Burgman. https://bit.ly/4iozgVS
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Explore the remarkable diversity of birds with Birds of the World, the world's leading collection of avian life histories published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with a global editorial team of avian experts. birdsoftheworld.org.
Society for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social Society for Conservation Biology - Europe Region
Part of @society4conbio.bsky.social
#biodiversity #climatechange #nature
Conferences, webinars, policy and scientific journals!
Website: https://www.scbeurope.org/
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social Ko Māwhera te kāinga. Ko Kevin tōku ingoa. Ex-Retired, Pākehā, gay, vegetarian, conservationist, public health advocate. Chief of Staff for the Green Party co-leaders’ office in Parliament, but this is my personal account.
Nat Forsdick @natforsdick.bsky.social Conservation genomics researcher @ MWLR in Aotearoa New Zealand 🧬🐦🐸🐛🌿 | Bird Nerd & President @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social | Secretary @scboceania.bsky.social | pākehā | she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions are my own.
www.researchgate.net/profile/Natalie-Forsdick/research
Ben Paris @nzbatman.bsky.social #Conservation #scicomm, passionate about #nzbats. Opinions my own. Repost/follows not endorsements. ❤️ #batspotting 🦇 #teampekapeka 🌳 #nzdotterel 🐥 #pestfreeAKL 🐀
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Te Kawa Robb @tekawarobb.bsky.social Environmental consultant, educator, storyteller, researcher, pāpā. Ko au ko taiao, ko taiao ko au 🌱
Braiding life with my love CW 🤍
www.mauriora.org
Rebekah White @rebekahwhite.bsky.social Science journalist, contributor @nzgeo.bsky.social, writes mostly about climate engineering, conservation, birds & also science fiction
Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social Freelance Wikipedian, fan of flightless birds, invented the platypus custard joke that Ricky Gervais stole. Ōtautahi, Dr Him.
0000-0003-1183-2550, Q56458901
New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social The magazine that celebrates our country in all its diversity — its people, places and wildlife. nzgeo.com
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Group @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research is a Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute.
Science for our land and our future – Ko te pūtaiao mō tō tātou whenua, mō āpōpō.
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social Te Kāhui Mātai Manu o Aotearoa | The Ornithological Society of New Zealand - for all things birds in Aotearoa New Zealand. www.birdsnz.org.nz
Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social Protecting our native plants, animals and wild places, on land and in our oceans. Authorised by Forest & Bird, 205 Victoria St, Wellington 6011
Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab Mātai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social Botanist, retired academic. Author of "He Puāwai, a natural history of New Zealand flowers" (Auckland University Press, 2025) illustrated with >500 stereo pair photographs. 🎸🌺🌱
Whakatū, Aotearoa. orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-4152
Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com science writer / bird nerd / nz / ellenrykers.com
Rachael Shaw @wild-minds.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist who plays games with birds in Aotearoa. Senior Lecturer at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Pākehā, she/her. Toitū Te Tiriti
thinkingbehaviour.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-8283
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
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Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social Birdwatcher, conservation scientist and mathematician
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Peter Dearden @peterkdearden.bsky.social Geneticist, evolutionary biologist, evolution and development. Working mainly on insects, but also big green budgies and snails. Co Director of Genomics Aotearoa, Deputy Director of Bioprotection Aotearoa. Snarked on Substack.
Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social Conservation biologist and former astrophysicist. Scientist for threatened birds with the #kakapo and #takahe programmes at the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Avatar: @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
Kaibosh - Food Rescue Charity @kaibosh-nz.bsky.social With help from over 290 volunteers we rescue good kai & keep it moving - from farms, producers, markets and supermarkets to communities across Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Te Awa Kairangi, Porirua, Kāpiti & Horowhenua. Serving our region since 2008 🧡
Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne @zealandia.bsky.social The first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary in the world
📍 Wellington, New Zealand
eevis @eevis396783.bsky.social Lover of all things nature and animals, as well as tox & pharm.
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