Podcasts about aotea great barrier island

For nearly 30 years, researchers have been banding black petrel fledglings before they make their maiden migration to Ecuador. Only a handful of birds have ever come back. RNZ's In Depth reporter Kate Newton travels to Aotea-Great Barrier Island to meet the birds, and the dedicated team trying to figure out the mystery of where they go. Sign up to the Our Changing World monthly newsletter for episode backstories, science analysis and more…Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

In-depth reporter Kate Newton heads to Aotea Great Barrier Island to meet the black petrels that breed there.  For almost 30 years Biz Bell of Wildlife Management International has been leading a team banding the birds before they make their first epic journey.   But only a handful of the banded black petrels have ever come back, and the team are trying to figure out what is happening to them at sea.   First Biz explains what it is about these birds that has captivated her.   

Entrepreneur Tama Toki's new venture Aotea Energy is solar energy project for rural communities on Aotea/Great Barrier Island. 

When was the last time you asked yourself what your spirituality/faith is for? On this episode, Petra risks rattling a few cages with a message that doesn't sit alongside what wider society often tells us. Joining Petra to explore the purpose of faith is Arch-Bishop Justin Duckworth and Kate Hall (@ethicallykate on Insta). Petra and Justin unpack their discussion that they had on Aotea/Great Barrier Island over summer. If you've been wondering what this conversation that we've been teasing since the start of the year is, here you go! Producer Sam went looking for someone who puts their words into actions, and found Kate Hall, who goes by @ethicallykate online. Petra and Kate talk about what it looks like to let your values influence your actions, and how this can actually be super life-giving! Haere mai! Music: Anchin Kfu Ayinkash by Hailu Mergia and the Dahlak Band (used to end Justin's interview) Alright by Kendrick Lamar Stormy by Gabor Szabo (played during communion) Summer's End by Julie Byrne (played during the candle reflection) Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong by Gene Harris (played to end Kate's interview) No Ordinary Life by Matt Corby Interlude by Julie Byrne (played during the benediction) The sacred text in this epsiode is Twenty-One Elephants by Scottie Reeve (pages 36-37)

Growing up in a self-sufficient community on Aotea Great Barrier Island, Tama Toki owes much of his problem-solving nous and deep connection to the whenua to his unique upbringing. As the founder of Aotea (a skincare line rooted in rongoā Māori knowledge) and Aotea Energy (a company focused on renewable micro-grid solutions), Tama's work blends innovation with purpose. In this final episode of Business is Boring for the season, we dive into Tama's journey, the mātauranga Māori guiding his ventures, and his vision for a future where energy and business empower communities. This is the last episode in this run for Business is Boring, and such a fitting guest to end on – Tama embodies the potential of business to build a better world, while broadening our understanding of what business can be. Thank you to all our incredible guests and listeners for joining us on this journey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark our words: 2025 will be the year of crowd-free travel. That's why our editors and contributors spent months seeking out 25 incredible, undertouristed destinations to explore next year. Our annual Where to Go list spotlights under-the-radar escapes, alternatives to popular hotspots, and interesting places around the world you may have been overlooking for too long. And in this episode of Unpacked by Afar, four editors share how they chose those places, where they're most excited to visit, and how to make a positive impact when you travel. This episode will help you plan an epic travel year—and feel good while doing it.  Overtourism No More In this episode you'll learn:  What travelers need to know about the changing travel landscape in 2025.  How Afar editors are combating overtourism and promoting travel as a force for good.  The places our editors can't wait to visit, including the beaches of Denmark's Riviera, a scenic road trip along Maine's coast, dark-sky sites on New Zealand's Aotea Great Barrier Island, a remote, wildlife-packed part of Patagonia where few people have ever set foot, and more. Where Should I Go Next? Don't miss these moments:  [01:57] What makes this “Where to Go” list different from the rest.  [07:48] The destinations these travel experts can't wait to visit.  [15:08] How to get off the tourist trails and make a positive impact on a place.  [19:17] What you need to know about travel in 2025.   Our Editors Guide You to the Places That Want Tourists Each Afar editor brings unique expertise to this roundtable discussion. Sarika Bansal has lived on five continents and is the editorial director of Afar magazine, as well as the editor of the book, Tread Brightly: Notes on Ethical Travel. Billie Cohen, Afar's executive editor, spent more than three years as a digital nomad and has a soft spot for nerd travel. Tim Chester focuses on destination inspiration and sustainable travel as deputy editor. And when it comes to info and breaking news about the air, cruise, and consumer travel spaces, deputy editor Michelle Baran is our go-to travel expert. In this episode, they take us behind the scenes of this year's Where To Go list, share what excites them as travelers, and reveal how their work inspires readers to go out into the world and use travel as a force for good.  Resources Read the transcript of this episode.  Explore the Where To Go in 2025 list.  Still want to go to a popular tourist destination? Here's how to get off the tourist trail.  How to get your Real ID, and keep up with updates on traveling to Europe and the UK.  Follow Afar on Instagram, to see these destinations come to life in a new way.  Be sure to subscribe to the show and to sign up for our podcast newsletter, Behind the Mic, where we share upcoming news and behind-the-scenes details of each episode. And explore our second podcast, Travel Tales, which celebrates first-person narratives about the way travel changes us.

Let's be real, death is not something that most of us are comfortable talking about. Who wants to think about the death of family or friends until we absolutely have to? As it turns out, beginning to talk about death before it is strictly necessary can do so much for when we are faced with the reality. To clarify, in this episode of Sunday Sanctuary we are not talking about sudden, unexpected death. This episode we are talking about the eventuality of natural death that faces everyone. Join Petra Bagust as she talks to paliative care nurses and clergy alike, to unpack the advantages of opening ourselves to conversations about the end of life. First up, Petra heads south to talk to Ann, a palliative care nurse (and mum of producer Sam), about her experiences of walking alongside many families as they face the death of a loved one. Later in the episode, Petra is joined by Anglican minister and chaplain to New Zealand's film industry, Kevin Denholm (otherwise affectionately known as Rev Kev ;). Kevin had a slightly different summer to most, leading eight funerals for residents of Aotea/Great Barrier Island. Haere Mai! Sacred Texts:  The Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I Featured Music: Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem (Lyrics) Pine Trees by Mary Lattimore (played during the contemplative practice) Statue Of A Woman by Novo Amor (played at the end of Ann's interview) Books suggested by Ann: With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Being Mortal by Atul Gawande When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You won't find any single use coffee cups or public rubbish bins on Aotea these days, and a community recycling centre has been set up to reduce and reuse as much waste as possible. Checkpoint's Luka Forman reports from Aotea Great Barrier.

With today's commencement of efforts to remove invasive seaweed from Aotea Great Barrier Island, Kennedy dives into the question of marine invaders and what we can do to control them.

Suction dredging is about to begin in a battle against a highly invasive seaweed taking hold at Aotea Great Barrier Island. The caulerpa seaweed is capable of growing up to 3 centimetres a day. It was discovered on the island around two years ago and can be devastating for biodiversity and fish numbers. University of Otago director of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Programme Professor Chris Hepburn spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

In this unbelievable awe-inspiring episode of The Wolf Of Queen Street Podcast, join host Lawrence Lotze as he sits down with the incredible 33-year-old Aucklander, Jono Ridler. Witness the incredible story of a true ocean champion who pushed himself to unimaginable limits, achieving a record-breaking non-stop ultra-distance open water swim that captured the world's attention. On the 2nd and 3rd of May 2023, Jono embarked on a momentous journey from Karaka Bay, Aotea Great Barrier Island to Campbells Bay, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, spanning over an astounding 33+ hours. His mission? To raise awareness about the health of the precious Hauraki Gulf, Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi, that holds immense significance and value. During this unparalleled 100km open water swim, Jono tested the very boundaries of human endurance, showcasing unwavering determination and passion for a cause that goes beyond personal triumph. With the Government's 2021 plan to address the Gulf's conservation issues yet to take effect, Jono's swim becomes a resounding call to action, urging the authorities to protect and restore the ecological health of the Hauraki Gulf without further delay. In this exclusive interview, Jono Ridler opens up about his motivations, challenges, and triumphs during this historic feat. His unwavering commitment to inspiring urgent action towards safeguarding the Hauraki Gulf will leave you inspired and motivated to make a difference.

Jono Ridler joins us on the podcast today to chat about his ultra marathon swim of nearly 100kms, the longest open water swim in New Zealand ever! *Interview starts at 20:58* Jono is a humble man who tells us his story into swimming, the mindset behind this huge endurance feat and some of the crazy physical experiences he had while in the water for nearly 33 hours. The record breaking swim took place in May 2023, starting in Karaka Bay, Aotea Great Barrier Island and finishing in Campbells Bay, Auckland. Jono's love of the ocean extends beyond challenging his physical limits, he's on a mission the raise awareness for ocean conservation in NZ, partnering with Live Ocean for his epic event. You can learn all about the amazing marine conservation work they do here https://liveocean.com/foundation/swim4thegulf/ In this ep we cover; - Jono's journey into ultra swimming - training for a 33 hour swim - fuelling and support crew - logistics, weather, medical support - letting the mind wonder vs staying focused - marine conservation with Live Ocean We know you're going to love this one. A truly inspiring story about the potential of human endurance. You can hear more from Jono on his website: https://www.jonoridler.com/about Use our code TAILWINDSTRONG at ⁠www.tailwindnutrition.com.au⁠ for 15% off Tailwind's premium Hydration and Rebuild products! Use our code STRONGERSTRIDE for 15% off Vivobarefoot shoes at ⁠www.solemechanics.com.au⁠  Thanks for all of your support! Dont forget to rate the podcast, leave a review and follow us on instagram @strongerstride to stay up to date.  TSSP x

On this episode of Between Two Beers we talk to Jono Riddler.  Jono is the general manager of a Truck Transportation business in Auckland – and on the side does marathon swimming.  Last week he set a new record for NZ's longest swim, after making it to Campbell's Bay on Auckland's North Shore on Wednesday night after he set off from Aotea Great Barrier Island on Tuesday morning.  Jono spent over 33 hours in the water and swum just short of 100kms, more than doubling his previous best ultra-marathon swim distance.  In this episode we talk about his epic swim, why he did it and the reaction he received, what the training looked like, the hallucinations he had after 80kms,  why he *lost is* at his crew at one point, hour-long ice baths and ice-swimming, pushing your limits and so much more.  The way Jono created a vision for himself, which seems impossible to most, then pulled it off – captured the imagination of the nation – and his story shows the potential of what's achievable with the right mindset.  Listen on iheart or wherever you get your podcasts from, or watch the video on Youtube. A huge thanks to those supporting the show on Patreon for the cost of a cup of coffee a month, to get involved head to Between Two Beers.com. And While you're there signup to our new weekly newsletter which has behind-the-scenes recaps of each episode.                   This episode was brought to you from the Export Beer garden studio. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's no easy task trying to rid Aotea Great Barrier Island of feral cats, rats and other pests.

The Detail heads to Aotea Great Barrier Island to meet up with conservationists working to protect one of the island's precious seabirds - the tākoketai.

Tired, sore, and fighting hallucinations. Thirty-three-year-old Jono Ridler came ashore at Campbells Bay on Auckland's North Shore last night after a record breaking 33 hour swim, from Aotea Great Barrier Island. The final stretch was a gut buster, with 25 knot winds and choppy seas. It was all to motivate people to protect and restore the health of the Hauraki Gulf. Lisa Owen caught up with Jono just as he got out of hospital.  

Swimmer Jono Ridler is just a few hours away from making it to shore in his record-breaking non-stop 100km open water swim, from Aotea Great Barrier Island to Narrow Neck beach on Auckland's North Shore. Fueled by donuts and meatballs Jono has been swimming since 10am Tuesday.  He's already swum more than 95km but has had to make a slight deviation in his course to avoid some of the worst swells. He's doing it to inspire urgent action to protect and restore the health of the Hauraki Gulf. Hamish Willcox is on Jono's support boat and joins Lisa Owen with the latest.  

Kennedy joins Kathryn to talk predator eradication on Aotea Great Barrier Island. A project led by local Maori on the island called Tu Mai Taonga aims to free the island of ship rats and feral cats, which have taken a heavy toll on the island's fauna. Kennedy spent time with the project team as they prepare to remove rats from two offshore islands and begin cat trapping in the remote, mountainous northern forests of Aotea.

The small community of Aotea Great Barrier Island is in clean-up mode, after copping it from Cyclone Gabrielle on Monday. The Local Board Chair is Izzy Fordham.

While some parts of the country are still waiting for the worst of the weather to hit, residents on Aotea Great Barrier Island are already hunkered down. Severe wind and rain have already set in, and Cyclone Gabrielle is forecast to come very close to the island early on Tuesday morning. Local board chair Izzy Fordham spoke to Kim Hill.  

This episode was recorded live during #internationaldarkskyweek. Kielder Observatory is situated in the Northumberland International Dark Sky Park, and we will linked up with a Dark Sky Park about as far away as you can get on this planet..! We were joined live from New Zealand by Gareth Davies from Dark Sky Network NZ, and Nalayini Davies who is the Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand and an International Dark-Sky Association board member, and Nalayini was the driving force behind making New Zealand's Dark Sky Reserve, Aotea/Great Barrier Island, happen. We also linked up with The Royal Observatory Greenwich, and astronomer Dr Ed Bloomer, who explains how you can still enjoy the night sky in the brightest of cities. PLUS we want you to head outside tonight and take a picture of the night sky wherever you are and share it with us.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The previously regionally-extinct North Island Robins have gradually returned to Aotea Great Barrier Island, but it remains difficult to track how well they are doing. Judy Gilbert manages the Windy Hill Sanctuary, she talks to Jesse.

The increasing number of applications for helipads on Aotea Great Barrier Island is causing alarm among locals. But the current rules mean they don't have to be notified or consulted about them. The Detail's Sharon Brettkelly looks at why.

Māori on Aotea Great Barrier Island have told the Auckland Council to stop helipads being put in, and to start taking them seriously as kaitiaki. But the council says the complete absence of sites of significance to mana whenua on the island in its plans, shuts the hapū, out of the loop. Phil Pennington reports.

Writer and environmental advocate Tim Higham is trying to live, as he puts it from fish to fish in a house in the bush on Aotea Great Barrier Island. That's where we find him in his book Island Notes in which, Robinson Crusoe-like, Higham considers his sense of place while building a simpler life off-the-grid for his family.

Writer and environmental advocate Tim Higham is trying to live, as he puts it from fish to fish in a house in the bush on Aotea Great Barrier Island. That's where we find him in his book Island Notes in which, Robinson Crusoe-like, Higham considers his sense of place while building a simpler life off-the-grid for his family.

Many residencies offer artists and writers a comfortable house for a few months to relax in and concentrate on completing a project. You need to be a bit more intrepid to apply for the Auckland Regional Parks Artist in Residence where you're going to be spending a lot of time in the wilderness, night and day, Titirangi poet Elizabeth Welsh has recently wrapped up her residency at Awhitu Regional Park. Lynn Freeman talks with Elizabeth, and with last year's artist in residence Chris McDowall. Chris is an award-winning cartographer who roamed and mapped the Glenfern Sanctuary at Aotea Great Barrier Island.

314 - Choose Good Bubbles - Andy Thompson on Aotea Great Barrier Island joins Samuel Mann in Sawyers Bay and Mawera Karetai in Whakatāne. With a contribution from Tahu Mackenzie. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

I was flying into Auckland on Thursday after a spending the first half of this week on Aotea Great Barrier Island.It was a wonderful trip - I’ll tell you more about that soon - and the flight back to the mainland came courtesy of a little Cessna Caravan and Great Barrier Air. If you haven’t been before, flying Great Barrier Air is wonderful. Like other regional airlines, it's pretty much just as chilled out as you might imagine. All the passengers squeeze inside a cabin space about as high and wide as in a car. If you’re in Row A you can pretty much reach out and touch the controls. There’s no fancy safety video. There’s no inflight snack. There’s not even a co-pilot! It’s fantastic. And the views across the Hauraki Gulf are astonishing.But it was coming back into Auckland, flying at a low speed and at a lower altitude than you would in a big commercial jet, that I found myself really focusing a couple of features of our biggest city.For starters, and this is probably pretty obvious, Auckland is incredibly spread out. Just ridiculously spread out. From the far-Eastern suburbs to the outer reaches of the North Shore is a vast suburban patchwork. If it were an unfamiliar city you might think it was home to five million people.Except the other thing you notice, and this might also seem prettttty obvious, is that the houses are all one-or-two-storied. And almost all have backyards.Don’t get me wrong; I love a backyard. I love gardening. I love playing backyard cricket. I think it’s really important for kids to play outside and feel dirt underneath their fingernails. But at a time when we are lamenting the ludicrous cost of housing in this country, and Auckland is top of the pops, I couldn’t separate our crisis from that very simple and obvious observation: Auckland’s houses are too spread out for the city’s population. I understand that as Kiwis, most of us have grown up with a version of the quarter-acre dream. That dream might have been sustainable when Auckland only had half a million people. Indeed, our other big cities are only just starting to experience the pressures of endless sprawl.But it seems to me that one of the most important solutions to the housing crisis is our responsibility. Not the government's responsibility. Not the Reserve Bank's. We are responsible for a collective attitude change when it comes to intensification. That doesn’t mean fifty-storey tower blocks in every neighbourhood. But it does mean smart density. It means many more town houses and terraced housing options in our cities. It means making Auckland’s neighbourhoods look a little more London and a little less Gisborne in the 1950s.Of course, when developers try and bring about these changes, they’re often challenged by existing property owners who moan that more intensive housing will affect the ‘character’ of their neighbourhoods. These are the same people who complain about 5% rates rises even as their house values increase by $150,000 a year. They are acting against the collective interests of everyone else in their wider community. Density is the pay-off for choosing to live in a big city. With the right sort of development and public transport infrastructure, there are all sorts of benefits that come with living in higher density environments. And if you don't like it, simple! Move to a town or a region where space is at less of a premium. I agree with the government on one thing… the housing crisis is going to take a require a massive set of solutions. Many of those policies lie at the feet our elected officials. But there are things the rest of us can do to help ease the crisis. For starters, stand up to the NIMBYs.