"Seizing The Day: Perrine Moncrieff and Nature Conservation in New Zealand"
This study examines environmental work by the ornithologist and conservationist Perrine Moncrieff between 1920 and 1980.
This study examines environmental work by the ornithologist and conservationist Perrine Moncrieff between 1920 and 1980.
This paper examines the reception of Marsh’s ideas in New Zealand in the 1870s along with the ideas of the largely-forgotten Titus Smith about human impacts upon the vegetation of Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century, prompting reflection upon the relevance of tales of environmental understanding from two colonial realms for the practice of environmental history in the twenty-first century.
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century.
The author examines the advent of native forest conservation in New Zealand’s Colony and the role of Thomas Potts in advocating exotic tree-planting as a response to timber shortage.