Wild Stories (and they’re all true!)

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Stories from Wild Dunedin and Beyond share the people, places, and passions that make Ōtepoti and the surrounding region, the wildlife capital of Aotearoa. From festival highlights to meeting our contributors, to inspiring conservation mahi across the motu, our stories shine a light on our connection to nature and the incredible efforts being made to protect it for future generations.

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Lala Frazer - Wild Hero of Otago Peninsula

Lala Frazer, Wild Dunedin’s Wild Hero for 2020.

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Wild Hero: Professor Phil Bishop

We are part of a long list of people, academics, students and conservationists, who considered Phil a true Wild Hero.

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Sir Alan Mark – Wild Hero

Wild Dunedin presented our first Wild Hero Award to Sir Alan Mark in 2019 at Otago Museum. Born in Dunedin and living most of his life here, Sir Alan is a true local hero who has great mana throughout Aotearoa.

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Sir Alan Mark and Dr Mike Joy

Host Peter Hayden began the conversation by asking if there was a moment when they became political on the issue of freshwater. For Alan it was when a senior public servant stated that raising Lake Manapouri would ‘improve on nature’…