Throughout March, ZEALANDIA is hosting an exhibition by photographer Chris Helliwell, in the gallery by the Rātā Cafe stairwell.

“Faces of Zealandia” is the first in a series of New Zealand nature portraits by award winning photographer Chris Helliwell. Chris has been photographing New Zealand’s amazing and beautiful wildlife for over six years and has spent many hours studying and photographing his subjects.

Conservation in cities is hard. The impacts of urbanisation on native ecosystems are extremely high and hard to overcome, and the remaining patches of habitat are often highly disturbed, weedy and small.

So why do we do conservation in these landscapes? What does it mean for biodiversity, and for people? 

Join Dr Danielle Shanahan, Director of ZEALANDIA’s Centre for People and Nature, as she explores these questions, drawing on examples from across the Oceania region.