Alison Ballance

ALISON BALLANCE is a zoologist, writer and broadcaster. In 2017 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to natural history, film-making and broadcasting. Since 2008 she has produced and presented Radio New Zealand's weekly science and environment programme Our Changing World. Before that she spent 18 years producing and directing wildlife documentaries for NHNZ, including the film To Save the K?k?p?. She has written 29 books, including Hoki: The story of a k...See more

ALISON BALLANCE is a zoologist, writer and broadcaster. In 2017 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to natural history, film-making and broadcasting. Since 2008 she has produced and presented Radio New Zealand's weekly science and environment programme Our Changing World. Before that she spent 18 years producing and directing wildlife documentaries for NHNZ, including the film To Save the K?k?p?. She has written 29 books, including Hoki: The story of a k?k?p?, and the biography of conservationist Don Merton. The first edition of K?k?p?: Rescued from the brink of extinction drew on her long association with the K?k?p? Recovery Programme and won the 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize. See less