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  • 3 weeks ago | thespinoff.co.nz | Allison Hess

    Right now, the Department of Conservation is asking for feedback on the Predator Free 2050 strategy. The biggest question: should feral cats be added alongside rats, ferrets, stoats, weasels and possums? Allison Hess argues it’s a no-brainer. Gareth Morgan kicked things off with his infamous Cats to Go campaign in 2013. He said things people didn’t want to hear. Cats, he said, were “serial killers” and “nature’s only sadists”. People absolutely lost the plot.

  • Feb 15, 2025 | michiganross.umich.edu | Allison Hess

    In his youth, he survived three years in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Following his liberation, he came to the United States and earned his PhD in geography. When I was growing up, my Opa often spoke about the power of learning – that knowledge can never be taken away from you, a view that was shaped during his time at Theresienstadt. Consequently, I decided that I would also pursue a PhD to advance my knowledge and that of others.

  • Feb 14, 2025 | michiganross.umich.edu | Allison Hess

    In his youth, he survived three years in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Following his liberation, he came to the United States and earned his PhD in geography. When I was growing up, my Opa often spoke about the power of learning – that knowledge can never be taken away from you, a view that was shaped during his time at Theresienstadt. Consequently, I decided that I would also pursue a PhD to advance my knowledge and that of others.

  • Jan 22, 2025 | thespinoff.co.nz | Allison Hess

    Some feel-good nature wins to start your year. Sure, 2024 wasn’t what you’d call a “feel-good” year for the natural world. But if your heart sank at each new blow to conservation (hello fast track bill, goodbye Jobs for Nature funding, looking at you, conservation and science budget cuts), let these despite-the-odds success stories lift your spirits.

  • Mar 2, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Allison Hess

    In a bush reserve near Zealandia in Wellington, a murder mystery is unfolding. Allison Hess investigates. On a summer walk through one of the capital’s most popular bush-clad reserves, you wouldn’t expect to find a body strewn limp and cold across the leaf-littered trail. But volunteers staking out the Waimapihi Reserve (formerly Polhill) every week have grimly come to expect it. A sinister pattern starts in late summer.

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