Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
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Nature & the Environment
Seasonal Catalogue
This major six part series written by botanist and eco-historian Geoff Park is based on his 1995 book Ngā Uruora - The Groves of Life. The series takes the study of our natural environment in a radical new direction. Part ecology, part history, part personal odyssey; the programmes offer challenging perspectives on the New Zealand landscape and our relationship to it.
CD1 The Emmense Trees of Ooahaouragee.
Ecologist Geoff Park examines the impact of European agriculture on the Hauraki Plains.
NRP 670.1 CD $30.00
CD2 The Perfect Vale
The Petone foreshore was the “beach head” of New Zealand Company, which had arrived expecting to find tens of thousands of acres of flat land suitable for agriculture.
NRP 670.2 CD $30.00
CD3 The Riverbend
Geoff Park goes in search of the reason why a small stand for ancient Kahikatea on a bend of the Mokau River has survived, despite the onslaught of forest clearing and dairying.
NRP 670.3 CD $30.00
CD4 The Lake In The Sand Country
Papaitonga is the name that Sir Walter Buller gave to his country estate. It was his site for a great ‘Grand Theatre’ of the Maori artifacts and also the place where the philosophy of modern conservation was formed.
NRP 670.4 CD $30.00
CD5 The Sandplain Forest
The continued existence of the fragile Nikau Scenic Reserve near Paparoa Is an anomaly amid the dairy country. As it turns out, its survival is linked to the story of the western black petrel.
NRP 670.5 CD $30.00
CD6 Necessary Protection
What significance should be placed on a few surviving remnants of the pre-agricultural landscape of Aotearoa? And what would Joseph Banks have made of his “properest place for a colony”?
NRP 670.6 CD $30.00
The Complete Set
NRP 670 set $75.00
EarthWorks
This is a 6 part series that explores, reveals and celebrates all the many factors that support life on this planet.
Part 1: Sol Invictus
We start right at the beginning - the beginning of the universe, and we'll understand how our sun came to be, how it works, how it's put together and how it warms, sustains and threatens the planet Earth.
NRP851/1 CD $30.00
Part 2: The Air That We Breathe
We consider the different layers of our atmosphere, to find out what they'er made of, how they were formed and how they work together to keep us comfortable, cosy and alive - at least for now.
NRP851/2 CD $30.00
Part 3: Cool, Clear Water
Here we follow a water molecule (called Tinkle) as it travels through the freshwater cycle. We'll discuss droughts and floods, life on other planets, and we'll journey across frozen lakes and up huge glaciers. But most of all, we'll find out why water is simple, crucial and beautiful.
NRP851/3 CD $30.00
Part 4: They That Go Down To The Sea
Our planet's oceans are perhaps the greatest potential natural resorce we have, and yet we literally know more about the far side of the moon or the surface of Mars than we do our own ocean floors. Here we go down, deep, deep down, all the way through the most alien place on Earth, full of strange creatures, extreme conditions and remarkable facts - the ocean!
NRP851/4 CD $30.00
Part 5: In The Belly of the Beast
We explode into the air above one of the most dangerous landscapes on Earth, the Taupo Volcanic Zone, right through the middle of a super volcano! We'll learn about the earth's crust and the destructive forces that shape it.
NRP851/5 CD $30.00
Part 6: Bringing it All Back Home
As the old joke goes, if it moves, it's biology; if it smells, it's chemistry; and if it doesn't work, it's physics. But it's fair to say that science has changed greatly in recent times and the traditional disciplines seem to be giving way to a more interdisciplinary, problem-based approch to specific questions.
NRP851/6 CD $30.00
NRP851 set of 6 CD's $75.00
Birds of New Zealand
Clear stereophonic recordings of NZ's native bush birds and our sea birds. Recorded by the Wildlife Service.
Audio includes the Morning Chorus, Bellbird, Tui, Kea, Fantail, Morepork, Kiwi, Royal Albatross and has a total of 38 forest and sea birds.
VPS445C - Cassette $20.00
VPS445CD - CD $24.95
S068 - Booklet only $9.95