For a century Forest & Bird has been a leading independent conservation charity in the protection of Aotearoa New Zealand’s native flora and fauna.

To mark the significant occasion of the organisation’s one hundred year anniversary, this exhibition of photographs organised by the Ashburton branch of Forest & Bird gives a glimpse of the extraordinary biodiversity that makes its home in the district.

Main image: Catherine Greenslade, Sacred NZ Kingfisher (Halcyon sancta, River Bridge Nature Reserve), photograph

Left image: Mary Ralston, Mountain Beech (Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides, Bowyers Stream), photograph