Environment of New Zealand
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The environment of New Zealand is characterised by an endemic flora and fauna which has evolved in near isolation from the rest of the world. The main islands of New Zealand span two biomes, temperate
New Zealand, showing mountains dividing a wet largely forested west coast from a drier east coast
The effect of bedrock on soil and ecology. Ultramafic rock (left) and mafic rock (right).
A male brown kiwi. Eighty per cent of New Zealand's biota is endemic.
Kauri tree and epiphytes
The environmental movement in New Zealand started in the 1950s, a period of rapid social change. Since then multiple high-profile national campaigns have contested various environmental issues includi
Part of a protest march held in 2003 voicing opposition to genetic engineering, making its way up Queen St, a main thoroughfare of Auckland