Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu
The islands of Aotearoa New Zealand were once inhabited by birds. Shrieking, warbling, tinkling, booming. Forest, river, marsh, mountain, ocean, shore—everything charged with their mauri, life force.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
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Antony Shadbolt
Commentary
If You Build It, They Will Come
Greater Christchurch has had more bird species recorded than any other part of Aotearoa New Zealand. Here, we’re blessed with three large coastal wetlands of international significance for both resident and migratory birds. Within the Ōtautahi Christchurch district we have around 320 kilometres of rocky shoreline and coastal cliffs, almost twenty kilometres of sandy shoreline and dunes, dryland environments, tussock grasslands, podocarp forests and shrublands. There are whole other worlds beneath the tides that – as terrestrial species – most of us seldom think about. And did you know we also have around fifty islands, islets and rock stacks across the Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula coastline?