West Coast

The Punakaiki Coastal Restoration project focuses on habitat restoration of coastal land adjacent to Paparoa National Park. It's a partnership between Conservation Volunteers New Zealand and the… Audio

Kennedy Warne talks about what's happening with the Denniston Plateau and a magnetic attraction to poles. Audio

Our tour guides are from the famous coal-mining town of Runanga, 10k's northwest of Greymouth. Audio

A team of archaeologists and historians have dug up part of a ship thought to be some 200 years old at Cape Foulwind on the West Coast. Audio

On the west coast of the South Island with Steve White. Audio

The Blackball Museum of Working Class History with Paul Maunder. Audio

On 24 May 1968 an earthquake hit Inangahua Junction, a tiny farming, sawmilling and coal mining community 40km east of Westport on the South Island's West Coast. The damage was severe, as 70 percent… Audio

British Mine experts working with the families of Pike River victims. David Creedy is an expert on methane gas, and Bob Stevenson is the former British Chief Inspector of all mines. Audio

An update on Kennedy's search for the Haast tokoeka kiwi, tramping in the Haast range and Arawata Bill - William O'Leary. Audio

The Grey Valley Senior Citizens Choir led by musical director Ellen Moreton, prepare for a concert at the Blackball Workingman's Club. Audio

The Paparoa Wildlife Trust is a conservation initiative to establish and maintain effective recovery programmes for Great Spotted Kiwi/Roroa in the South Paparoa Range near Greymouth. Trust volunteers… Audio

Kennedy joins us from the Denniston Plateau near the top of the South Island's West Coast. Home to various native species of flora and fauna, and unfortunately for them a goodly supply of coal. Audio

This is a fertile valley just 15 kilometres inland from Hokitika, and the township, such that it is, is located near the junction of two rivers whose headwaters are deep in the Southern Alps. There is… Audio

On the West Coast, people and their cars are a bigger threat than predators to little blue penguins Audio

Waiuta on the South Island's West Coast was once a township said to be literally paved with gold - concealed in the crushed rock walkways around a mine that still ranks as one of New Zealand's… Audio

Wildlife photographer Rod Morris talks about the plateau's remarkable wildlife, and why he believes it should be protected. Audio

The continued existence of the fragile Nikau Scenic Reserve near Paparoa is an anomaly amidst the dairy country. As it turns out, it's survival is linked to the story of the Western Black Petrel. Audio

All things whitebait will be celebrated all along the Coast during the Whitebait Festival. There's a photography competition, a whitebait menu challenge and exhibits acknowledging the hallowed place… Audio

The best muffin maker in the small West Coast town of Hari Hari, 81-year-old Charlie Glass, talks about the best way to cook whitebait, being married for 59 years and life on the coast. Audio