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almost always gives the name of the paper, and initials for the author.) The name of the paper almost inevitably allows you to find the author, not just an author string. If there is no enwiki article for the author write his/her full name and create a redlink. (Usually good to turn this into blue
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The topic of spotlighting uncharismatic species was raised in an interview by Mulligan in April 2015, and the programme originated later in 2015 in a discussion between Mulligan and Toki about threatened bird conservation, in which Toki lamented a lack of attention and corporate funding for species
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featuring a selection of species that had appeared on the programme. In September–October 2018, a "Critter of the Week: Bake-off"
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to every article. Useful sites for working out authority names for animal taxa are the link in the taxonbar to
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invited listeners to bake a cake in the shape of their favourite "
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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in April 2022, but continued with the RNZ weekly programme.
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Threatened Species Ambassador) and RNZ Afternoons host
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Index


RNZ National
endangered
plants
animals
New Zealand
Nicola Toki
Department of Conservation
Jesse Mulligan
species
Giant Springtail
Leaf-veined Slug
Giselle Clarkson
Smeagol
New Zealand bat fly
Knowledge article
Giselle Clarkson
t-shirts
tea towels
competition
critter
Forest & Bird
lightning talk
Mike Dickison
2018 ESEAP Conference
Bali, Indonesia
Wikimedia Australia Melbourne
meetup
museum
outreach

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