DARK SECRETS: Central otago | Rare Historical Photos

New Zealand’s rare woollyhead nearly disappeared from the wild. Two surviving plants helped produce 250 seedlings now heading back to the reserve

On the dry plains of Central Otago, a small native herb has been given another chance to survive in the wild. Craspedia argentea, a woollyhead found only around the Pisa Flats, had dwindled to just two known plants. By then, even the ordinary business of pollination had become difficult. There…

The Times of India · Aug 7

‘That’ll be the end’: actor Sam Neill joins fight to stop controversial goldmine near his New Zealand vineyard

Neill says ‘one of the most beautiful and remote places in the world’ will be permanently changed if Bendigo-Ophir wins fast-track approval

The Guardian - AU · Apr 10

Meet the ‘Old Mother Goose’ from NZ’s subtropical prehistoric past

During the early to mid Miocene period, 14 to 19 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of what is now Central Otago.

The Conversation · Mar 1