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Kate Evans

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Nature writer & ocean journalist New Zealand Geographic
Www.Kateevans.org
Words also in Scientific American, bioGraphic, Hakai Magazine, the New York Times, among others. Author of FEIJOA: A STORY OF OBSESSION AND BELONGING

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Matchy matchy spongy spongy! 🐟🧽🇳🇿🦀🐙🐡

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Current mood ... From: Urbani, B. (1999). Spontaneous tool use by wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus). Folia Primatologica, 70(3), 172-174. 🧪

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Wouldn’t be any good in the Andes!

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Yup ruana is what Colombians call a woollen poncho, I have one and it’s the best! So warm

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They are so epic! I discovered so many more I didn't know about before while researching this piece. Marsupial lion?? Short faced kangaroo?? So cool. Plotting a wider feature on them one day.

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Lol I know! Kicking myself now for not asking whether it would have honked

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Oh yay that’s so cool to hear! Look forward to your review 🥰

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I don’t know! Not so far. It seems like it’s less common for NZ books? I think they’re expensive to make and our market is so small. I’d like to do one though! I’ve been practicing my radio voice!

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Ooh I really wanna read it now, thanks for the rec!

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Yusss thanks Simon. Oh really wasn’t it? Did it let you add it manually? I wonder if it means Whitcoulls don’t stock it

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You don’t have to be in New Zealand it seems! Anyone can vote. If Feijoa wins it gets to hang out in the front window of all the whitcoulls book shops which would be epic as. Thanks everyone!

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Bluesky friends! Can you do me a favour? Voting closes Monday for the Whitcoulls top 100 books and I’d absolutely love it if you’d chuck a vote in for Feijoa: takes 1 minute and you go into the draw for book vouchers. Link here: www.whitcoulls.co.nz/top-100-books

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Climate News: Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to climate policies: Government of Christopher Luxon has made sweeping cuts to climate projects in its first budget, with no new sig...

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Oh this is tragic and wonderful and all the feels!!

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Oh I’d love to check out the short story!

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In Bridgerton S.3 there’s a scene where Cressida is trying to impress the nature-loving lord with her concern for the endangered great auk. By 1850 these birds were extinct. How they went from millions to none is a wild story I wrote about here: hakaimagazine.com/news/from-he... #bridgerton 🦤🦢🦩🪽🐧

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Do it!! Or your local community page?

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So is the Icelandic Tourism Authority shitting itself now that so many people have achieved their bucket list aurora moment in their own backyards?

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Ohh I love to see this!! So cool !!

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Pretty cool how we met because of bluesky !

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Yeah it’ll be mid 2025 or 2026. Follow my Instagram @feijoafellowship just in case I forget to post here!

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Yay! It’s in Colombia.. I’m thinking of leading a trip to it one year :)

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Yuss I love that! I actually see quite a lot of feijoa posts from Japan on instagram - I reckon they must grow pretty well there

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Really stoked to share this latest 'Just So' column with hilarious and relatable cartoons by
@giselledraws. This one is about how incredibly gay the animal world is--nature queer in tooth and claw. www.nzgeo.com/stories/rain... 🪶🐧🐋🦑🐟🐒🙈#kikorangi

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Rat eradication is a team sport. It’s not a competition – but if it were, New Zealand would be on the leaderboard. Watching one unfold on the remote Tongan island of Late last July was so fascinating: listen to my last Voice of Tangaroa podcast ep here! www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/v...

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Ps i campaigned hard for macrons but crumpled before the NYT style guide 😩

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His pets: a station hand with a New Zealand Kiwi and his dog Auckland Weekly News, F S Stevens 28th April 1921

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Despite the outcry, Duke University still plans to close its huge herbarium, because it doesn't want to spend $25 million to repair the collection's building. Duke's endowment was $11.6 billion as of 2022; it is also the primary beneficiary (32%) of the independent $3.69 billion Duke Endowment.

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Just read this fantastic book - great writing and meticulously researched. Captures the emotional resonance of "Feijoa season" (now in full swing at mine), the political and colonial history that spread it round the world, and the biology of the plants themselves. In good bookshops near you.

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Oh Richard I’m so stoked you’ve read and enjoyed it!

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Yes, it's certainly possible! No-one's done a study yet as far as I know to measure how much feijoa trees can absorb from soils and express in their fruits

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This. Promising (female) talent gets preyed on, then punished for objecting or speaking out, and oftentimes leaves the industry discouraged by the total lack of accountability or learns to keep themselves small and unnoticeable for their own safety.

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