Links & Resources

The following is a list of links to websites, blogs, and other online resources that may be useful to readers interested in natural history and environmental history, both in a specifically New Zealand context and in a broader international one. It includes sites devoted to the wide range of disciplines that frequently inform or otherwise intersect with the study of the natural world, such as the biological sciences, history, science history, geography, and literature.

This list makes no claim for completeness, and is highly subjective in both its selection and its scope. Like the site as a whole, it is very much a work in progress, and I will be updating it periodically.

Last updated: 28 August 2019

New Zealand & Australia

Societies, specialist groups, and government agencies

Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science

Australian & New Zealand Environmental History Network

Australian Environmental Humanities Hub

Australian Garden History Society

Birds New Zealand (Ornithological Society of New Zealand)

Centre for Science in Society

Department of Conservation (New Zealand)

Garden History Research Foundation

Kea Conservation Trust

Kererū Discovery Trust

Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand)

New Zealand Botanical Society

New Zealand Ecological Society

New Zealand Historical Association

Project Crimson

Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture

Blogs

EcoLincNZ

Ecology is Not a Dirty Word

Ecology Ngātahi

envirohistory NZ

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives

The Meaning of Trees

River Ecology and Research

Te Papa Blog

Digitised collections and reference sites

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

New Zealand Birds Online

New Zealand Botanists

Papers Past – Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives

Papers Past – Newspapers

Papers Past – Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Online journals relating to the natural sciences in New Zealand

Past issues (i.e. those normally older than 3 years) of most of the key scientific journals focusing on aspects of New Zealand flora, fauna and ecology are now freely available online. These journals include the following (sponsoring societies and paywall limits given in brackets):

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (>3 years)

New Zealand Journal of Botany (Royal Society of NZ; >3 years)

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (NZ Ecological Society; open access)

New Zealand Journal of Forestry (NZ Institute of Forestry; >3 years)

New Zealand Journal of Zoology (Royal Society of NZ; >3 years)

Notornis (Ornithological Society of NZ; >1 year)

Environmental history journals

ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand (open access)

International Review of Environmental History (open access)

International

Societies, associations, and other specialist groups

American Society for Environmental History