Name: June Section Meeting: 130 years of wētā science and conservation in the Southern Alps
Start: 2026-06-02T21:30:00+12:00
Location: Knox Church, Dunedin - Official

$June Section Meeting: 130 years of w\u0113t\u0101 science and conservation in the Southern Alps$

Come along to our next section meeting on June 3rd at the Knox Church community centre!
Synopsis:
Our mountains are home to some unique, highly specialized alpine wildlife. Mountaineering and the study of alpine wildlife have always gone hand in hand. Arguably, the latter cannot take place without the former. Danilo Hegg will talk about his journey studying alpine invertebrates in the New Zealand Southern Alps, with a few stories about scientists-mountaineers from the past