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BEYOND SCIENTISM

When Henrik Moller set out to investigate muttonbirding sustainability on the Tītī Islands, off Rakiura/Stewart Island, it turned into an 18-year journey that flipped his approach to science on its head.

“It was in some respects the worst and most difficult research I have ever attempted, and in other ways the most uplifting and satisfying,” says Moller, a Dunedin-based environmental consultant and emeritus professor at the University of Otago, where he did

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