The Mixtape: Nicola Toki

Our Guest picking their favourite songs today is New Zealand conservationist Nicola Toki.
Her passion and enthusiasm for our nature and native wildlife is inspiring.

Nicola Toki Photo: Supplied

Nicola Toki has an impressive history of conservation leadership and advocacy for New Zealand’s wildlife and has worked in a range of roles across the private and public sector. 

You may recognise her from her weekly Critter of the week feature with Jesse Mulligan here on RNZ , Her TV show  Endangered Species Aotearoa and has just released a new book Critters of Aotearoa
She is here this week in perfect timing to help get us voting for Forest and Birds 'BIRD OF THE CENTURY'

Nicola's Mixtape picks: 

Burl Ives - Little White Duck
Crosby Stills and Nash - Southern Cross
Annie Lennox - Little Bird 
Minuit -  Aotearoa 
Hilltop Hoods - I’m Good? 
Jenny Mitchell - If you were a bird  
Cornerstone roots - Home

Voting for Bird of the Century will open at 9am on Monday 30 October 2023 and run for two weeks, closing at 5pm on Sunday 12 November 2023. The winner will be announced the following morning on Monday 13 November 2023. 

Top, left to right: Huia by Auckland Museum Ref LB 9129 (CC BY 4.0); North Island Piopio, Turnagra tanagra, collected 8 September 1900, Waitotara district, New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (OR.000212). Bottom, left to right: South Island snipe by Don Merton/Department of Conservation Ref 10040147; Laughing owl by Buthbert & Oliver Parr, 1909 at Raincliff Station, Opihi River, South Canterbury; Bush wren by Don Merton/Department of Conservation Ref 10037276. Photo: Creative Commons / Auckland Museum / Department of Conservation / Te Papa