Bob Brockie

Robert Ellison Brockie

He was an editorial cartoonist for the National Business Review from 1975 to 2018, specialising in political satire. As a biologist he is interested in animal populations, animal behaviour and diseases and did his PhD on hedgehog ecology. He has published material on butterfly evolution in Sicily, behaviour of sparrows, magpies, possums, starlings, mange mites, animal roadkill, flax flowering, cabbage tree disease.

He was science columnist for Wellington's

Brockie takes a strong interest in refuting popular myths, like danger to humans from 1080 poison used to control possum populations.^[2]

Brockie is a member of

In 2018, Brockie was dropped from the Fairfax Media chain and the National Business Review for his positions on the Treaty of Waitangi and climate change.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

Selected bibliography

• I was there!: dramatic first-hand accounts from New Zealand’s history
• City Nature: Everyday Plants and Animals in NZ Cities
• Dr Bob's amazing nature facts
• Brockie’s Bones of contention: a selection of cartoons,
  ISBN 9780473002008
• Brockie, Bob; Mayne, Warren (1983). Brockie's bones of contention: a selection of cartoons. Wellington, N.Z.: Fourth Estate Books.
  ISBN 9780473002008
  .
• Don't Vote – It Only Encourages Them
• Brockie, Bob (2002). Brockie, Bob (ed.). The Penguin eyewitness history of New Zealand: dramatic first-hand accounts from New Zealand's history (Updated and extended ed.). Albany, Auckland: Penguin Books.
  ISBN 9780143018254
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• A Living New Zealand Forest: A Community of Plants and Animals (1992), David Bateman Publishing,
  Orongorongo range
  near Wellington
• Brockie, Bob, Brockie: A Memoir in Words, Cartoons & Sketches (2015), Fraser Books,
  ISBN 9780958232074