Author: Greg Roughan

Big ups to the friendly farmer with the crayfish creek on his property: I now have two native New Zealand freshwater crayfish in the pond. I think I’ll called them Reggie and Ronnie (Ronnie is the big one). Check them out: Like the infamous Kray twins of London’s East End, these two have been sentenced […]

Phase one of Operation Spawn of Ponsonby is now almost complete (and we’re talking about popping out frogs, not sprogs, here, in case that headline was misleading); the ultimate goal of Operation Spawn of Ponsonby being, of course, the establishment of a self-sustaining population of frogs, fish and (hopefully) freshwater crayfish in the gaping industrial […]

I’ll be filing this one under the ‘rules to be me, sucks to be you’ category on the blog: at the end of February I’m flying to the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia to do a story for The Dominion Post and Stuff.co.nz So far, the itinerary lists “snorkelling, diving, swimming with turtles, nature treks, beach […]

Despite my general left-leanings I’ve been on-the-whole okay with National’s John Key as our Prime Minister. Backing down in the face of opposition to mining our national parks? Okay, that was cool: the initial idea was bad, but then you showed you could listen to the public and admit mistakes. And the general straight-talking profile […]