Watching New Zealand nature: 2015

Thursday, January 1, 2015

This blog has moved!

We've flicked the switch and turned on a Wordpress version of this blog, http://blog.naturewatch.org.nz.

We're back filling it with the news stories and important NatureWatch NZ observations from 2014 that we posted on Facebook, as an archive. Then our sights will be set on 2015 and lots of new nature watching goodness.

In a few days we'll turn this site into a single post redirecting to the new site.

Thanks and Happy New Year to your all.

Jon Sullivan (for the NatureWatch NZ team)

About NZBRN

The New Zealand Bio-Recording Network (NZBRN) is a charitable trust dedicated to increasing New Zealanders' engagement with and knowledge of nature.

Our main product is NatureWatch NZ, a free, online website for exploring and recording New Zealand biodiversity. You can record your observations, get observations identified, comment on and help others identify their observations, create and join projects, learn about species, and all sorts of other snazzy things. Only with all our observations together can we really see nature and how it's changing.

This blog is about NZBRN, including how to use NatureWatch NZ and some of the interesting species distributions and changes that are being revealed in everyone's observations.

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Acknowledgements

Development of NZBRN has been primarily funded by the New Zealand Government's Terrestrial & Freshwater Biodiversity Information System Fund (TFBIS).

Our new web platform, NatureWatch NZ, is powered by iNaturalist and our main developer and hosting company is egressive, a New Zealand IT company specialising in open-source software.

Our legacy NZBRN website (2005–2012) was adapted for New Zealand from the successful, prize-winning Swedish Artportalen (species gateway) system and securely hosted at Landcare Research, the New Zealand Government's environmental research institute.

Thanks to everyone who's helped build and contributed to NZBRN and NatureWatch NZ. You're the best!