Kennedy Warne
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
Kennedy Warne co-founded New Zealand Geographic in 1988 and served as the magazine’s editor for 15 years. In 2000 he began writing for National Geographic, and has contributed more than 20 stories to that publication, many of them on marine life and the underwater world. He also writes and edits for the online Māori-Pasifika magazine e-Tangata, and is the outdoors and environment correspondent for Radio New Zealand’s weekday Nine to Noon program, with a slot called “Off the Beaten Track.”
He has written books on the world’s disappearing mangrove forests (Let Them Eat Shrimp), on the Tūhoe iwi (Tūhoe: Portrait of a Nation), and on his first 20 years with New Zealand Geographic (Roads Less Travelled) as well as two children’s books in collaboration with illustrator Heather Hunt (The Cuckoo and the Warbler and It’s My Egg: And You Can’t Have It.) His most recent book is an account of his underwater reporting for National Geographic, entitled Soundings: Diving for Stories in the Beckoning Sea. He lives in Aotearoa, New Zealand, dividing his time between the city in Auckland and the coast in Northland.
