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Donna Ferguson

Donna Ferguson

Donna Ferguson is a multiple award-winning freelance journalist who specializes in arts, culture, nature and history stories. She is based in Cambridge in the U.K.

Stories from this author

A written description (left) of New Zealand flax (illustrated on the right) references an Indigenous name for the plant: “haragag.”

Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand’s Plants With Captain Cook’s Crew

Long-overlooked documents housed at London’s Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts