Profile avatar
korimakoecology.bsky.social
Aotearoa based Restoration/Applied Ecologist. iNaturalist enthusiast https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=any&user_id=andymckay&verifiable=any
154 posts 469 followers 1,470 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 29 Comments 20

Two really important papers for anyone interested in causal inference in ecology came out recently in Ecology Letters. 1st up (by @lauradee.bsky.social & @katherinesiegel.bsky.social) is this over-view paper. Really useful for both experts and beginners. https://buff.ly/4gZgTWa

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"You never hear people talk about the ozone layer anymore." Yup that's because we banded together, listened to scientists, passed regulations, and fixed it. Why does no one know this?

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Reintroducing #wolves to Scottish Highlands could help expand native woodland and store a million tonnes of CO2 annually. Currently growing red #deer populations eat tree saplings and suppress natural regeneration of #trees & woodland: www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n... #landuse #biodiversity #forests

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm! NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Digging stormwater ponds into the drained peat wetlands of the Kāpiti Coast shows the last vestiges of the forests that these areas used to support. A hydrologist I spoke to a few years ago described how hard it was to install piezometers in this area, due to all the woody material. 🌏

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Unopened lunches before Seymour: 9% Unopened lunches after Seymour: est 50% Percentage of energy needs before Seymour: 20% Percentage of energy needs after Seymour: 11% Waste "out of control". This programme is spending less money, but wasting more of it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not an entomologist but I'm pretty sure this is a smooth stick insect (Clitarchus hookeri) that I found today. 🌏

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is a nice and concise definition of Regenerative Agriculture that doesn’t over-complicate www.cdfa.ca.gov/Regenerative...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 3 days ago • 305 comments

This country is in more trouble than we first thought.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Closing a library, even temporarily, is a terrible idea, if only because ratepayers love their library more than almost anything else (in Westland ours had over 90% approval ratings). www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Wilding pine with a view on the Paekākāriki Escarpment. It got removed.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This week's Autistic Nature article is all about why and how to use logs and branches to create homes for wildlife. Nature is messy -- all those logs and rocks provide homes for wildlife. If you clear it all, then you are removing homes for frogs, salamanders and other wildlife. 🌎 🌱

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

That is certainly a sentence.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure how long these signs would last in an actual biology department.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

I have made my submission on the Proposals to Modernise the Conservation System. It was big and annoying but I have flipping done it! Submissions close 28 Feb. Take a look here.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Members of Gen Z are turning 30 next year. The Gen Alpha vultures will circle, everything you think is cool will be cringe, people will call you old

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

My friend Dr Reuben Steff wrote the attached post yesterday. Today we have a no-fly zone 340 nautical miles (670km) south-east of Sydney, in the international waters of the Tasman Sea because China is likely carrying out live ammunition exercises. This is very, very calculated.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Rehabilitated quarries exhibit richer cultural ecosystem services than abandoned or operational ones, and accessibility significantly influences public engagement. Our findings from a study of sociocultural restoration of quarries. With K. Svobodova, P. Chang & A.S. Olafsson. doi.org/10.1111/rec....

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Nice to see iNaturalist here. Give them a follow to see interesting observations posted each day. I love #WildflowerWednesday too!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Huge restoration and pest control project planned for three of NZ's largest islands

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

James Cameron seems to have fallen into the trap that because he didn’t have it his way there was no consultation. The fact is that there was mass consultation (1800+ submissions), and we made a significant number of changes to respond to it. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Gees the Environmental Law Initiative is absolutely killing it at the moment. They can't stop winning. www.odt.co.nz/southland/co...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Winstone Aggregates seeks Belmont Regional Park land through Fast-track Approvals Act

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing to spend time with these special shore skinks today while working alongside my Auckland Council colleagues to restore this unique ecosystem🦎 #aklbiodiversity #skink #lizard #shoreskink #auckland #biodiversity #betterworkstories

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Our Changing World: Recruiting the birds to bring back the bush

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

once again, this time for James Cameron

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Kawakawa's anti-inflammitory properties could help with diabetes and obesity - researcher

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like more needs to be made of this. It's been an overt attack in the House from the Deputy PM and Cabinet on the equal rights of citizens to participate in our electoral system, and any migrant or child of migrants should find it as chilling as I do.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments