Biography of dr gerry mcsweeney
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New Zealand was once a country abundant with rare and often unique wildlife including kiwis, keas, kakapo and Hector’s dolphins. Its rich forests and remote land protected by the Southern Ocean enabled the animals to live an undisturbed life free from the threat of mammalian predators.
But a thousand years ago their lives were turned upside down. Since humans have inhabited New Zealand they’ve gradually destroyed the animals’ habitats and introduced predators⎯stoats, ferrets, rats, cats, possums and dogs.
Today many of the country’s iconic creatures are critically endangered and are totally reliant on the help of humans to haul them back from them brink of extinction.
NZ⎯Sanctuary Keepers travels through the beautiful countryside of New Zealand to find the amazing people who are dedicating their lives to protecting the wildlife and are desperately trying to increase population numbers.
The compelling journey begins in the middle of the South Island, on a high country sheep station situated among the Southern Alps near Arthur’s Pass. Here we meet the ecologist and farmer, Dr Gerry McSweeney who created quite a stir among locals when he fenced half of his farm off to provide a safe haven for native plants and the mountain-dwelling kea.
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The man who blew the whistle 20 years ago gives an inside account on Morrison’s modus operandi.
Scott Morrison might have allegedly bullied Christine Holgate out of her Australia Post job, publicly humiliated her, and cut across the lines of independence designed to protect government enterprises from political interference… but it was far from the first time for him.
Indeed, Morrison’s behaviour has strong echoes with his role in a political furore which, though little known in Australia, played out dramatically in New Zealand more than 20 years ago.
Dr Gerry McSweeny was a firsthand witness to the shenanigans known as the “tourist wars” and remembers well the role Morrison played as the director of a new government tourism agency.
“He has a disrespect for process, for parliament and for independence,” McSweeney told Inq. “There’s a pattern there of bulldozing ahead despite the constitutional barriers.”
Former political journalist Nick Venter had a more colourful turn of phrase. He likened Morrison’s actions to “a cross between Rasputin and Crocodile Dundee”.
“Here he is, whispering into the minister’s ear about the board,” wrote Venter. “There he is, crashing through the undergrowth without regard for reputation or bureaucratic convention.”
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Still ‘fascinated’ newborn nature name decades’ work
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DR GERRY (GERARD) MCSWEENEY
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