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Our Changing World for Thursday 6 June 2019

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  • Our Changing World for 6 June 2019

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    9:05 PM.The NZ Bird Atlas is launched, a successful effort to create a new fluttering shearwater colony, Fiordland's tawaki penguins go for record-breaking long swims, and the chemical element gallium. Audio

  • Rifleman to royal albatross - a bird atlas for NZ

    science environment
    The New Zealand Bird Atlas will map the distribution and abundance of birds as big as the royal albatross and as small as a sparrow.

    9:06 PM.The NZ bird atlas will be a 5-year project counting common & rare birds from the Kermadecs to the far south. Read more Audio

  • Successful new seabird colony on Matiu Somes Island

    environment
    Fluttering shearwaters head to bass Strait and waters off southern Australia in winter.

    9:07 PM.Eight years ago volunteers began translocating fluttering shearwater chicks to Wellington's Matiu Somes Island to establish what is now a growing seabird colony. Read more Audio

  • Tawaki bust penguin swimming records

    science environment
    Tawaki or Fiordland crested penguins are marathon swimmers, and cover up to a thousand kilometres a week at sea.

    9:08 PM.Twice a year tawaki or Fiordland crested penguins make migrations of many thousands of kilometres to the south to feed at the Polar Front. Read more Audio

  • Gold - a most desirable noble metal

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    8:00 AM.Gold is highly valued for its colour as well as for being malleable and ductile, and as a noble metal it is unreactive and doesn't rust, says Allan Blackman from AUT in ep 32 of Elemental. Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 30 May 2019
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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