Natural History New Zealand cameraman and director Max Quinn is in his 50th year of film-making. Always interested in natural history, Quinn was a shy child who practised taxidermy on classmates' dead budgies and ran a museum at his Wellington primary school. However, it was TVNZ's Dunedin-based natural history unit that he had his eyes on and eventually he was able to return to his original passion. Natural History New Zealand Ltd is in its 40th year of operation. In the TVNZ days, it was known as the wildlife unit, then the natural history unit until being sold to Fox in 1996.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 21, 2017 18:03 UTC