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- CHAPTERManaging Our Natural Areas
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- CHAPTERTOURISM
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- ILLUSTRATIONPlanes and helicopters in wilderness areas are not always welcome — especially by people who have made the trip the h...
- ILLUSTRATIONAt the Whakarewarewa thermal area, one hotel dominates, providing a few guests with a view but intruding into the exp...
- ILLUSTRATIONA youthful "porter" rests in the Khumbu region of Nepal. Tourism has put pressure on timber supplies in area where re...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe 40-metre long Mangaparua Bridge was built in 1936 to provide access for settlers of the isolated and now abandone...
- ILLUSTRATIONIt is scenes such as this — Lake Matheson with Mts Tasman and Cook in their reflected glory — which have always attra...
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- CHAPTERPUNAKAIKI: This fortress built by nature for herself
- ILLUSTRATIONLooking out from the entrance to the Fox River Caves and over to the bluffs on the opposite side of the river. A 2 km...
- ILLUSTRATIONTrumans Pack, near Punakaiki. Constant pounding of the Tasman Sea has created marvellous sculptures in the coastal li...
- ILLUSTRATIONFew places could compete for intensity of greeness with little Welsh Creek, off the Fox River. Photo: Derek Shaw
- ILLUSTRATIONMt Mendel, looking north from Mt Faraday. Climber Les Molloy has remarked that the Paparoa Range probably offers a ch...
- ILLUSTRATIONWind-swept coal measures on the Ngakawau plateau support a strange vegetation, especially adapted to survive in the t...
- CHAPTERBULLER RESERVES: Custodians of time's secrets
- CHAPTERLongariro Forest Park: The people's proposal
- ILLUSTRATIONKing Country people see their bush areas as a growing tourist attraction and are fighting hard to retain them. View s...
- ILLUSTRATIONLocal people have formed FORKS — Friends of the River at Kakahi — and seek a conservation order for the Whakapapa Riv...
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- ILLUSTRATIONSince 1957 Lands and Survey have been clearing southern Tongariro State Forest for pasture. Foreground matai burnt 19...
- ILLUSTRATIONEducational lodges in Tongariro State Forest provide for at least 31,700 user days per annum. This area was formerly ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAlan Bradbury: "Before it was tear down, destroy, destroy, destroy". Photo: G Hutching
- ILLUSTRATIONThis sign on the Okupata road shows that people have never been welcome in Tongariro Forest. However a Forest Park wo...
- CHAPTERTHE PRICE OF PRESERVATION
- CHAPTERLittle spotted kiwi: Paradise Regained or Paradise Lost?
- ILLUSTRATIONKiwis may dig burrows two metres or more long as daytime shelter. Some, like this one, are shallow and may be shared ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLooking through Cook Strait from Kapiti Island. Little spotted kiwis were present on the mainland either side of Cook...
- ILLUSTRATIONSeventeen chicks have been caught during the study on Kapiti Island. This young kiwi, about two months old, had left ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOne of many eggs found to be preyed on by wekas during the study of the breeding of little spotted kiwis on Kapiti. P...
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- ILLUSTRATIONNest burrows like this one in the younger forest on Kapiti Island are readily found by wekas. Few eggs survive. Photo...
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- CHAPTERLake Wairarapa
- ILLUSTRATIONA view to the south-west over Haywards Lagoons (foreground) and JK Donald Reserve to the flats and backwaters of the ...
- ILLUSTRATIONMarsh crake in a raupo border, Boggy Pond. This is believed to be the first colour photograph published in New Zealan...
- ILLUSTRATIONSpotless crake wading in shallow water at the edge of a raupo stand in Boggy Pond. Photo: P Moore
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe eastern shore of Lake Wairarapa, showing a mosaic of shallow pool and sparse native turfs. The Aorangi Range is i...
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- CHAPTERThe Nene
- CHAPTERThe delicate world of ferns
- ILLUSTRATIONKidney ferns (Trichomanes reniforme). Photo: D Gregorie
- ILLUSTRATIONFragrant fern (Phymatosorus diversifolium). Photo: D Gregorie
- ILLUSTRATIONBlechnum discolor, or the crown fern. Photo: D Gregorie
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- ILLUSTRATIONA fern shaded path, Rimutaka Forest Park. Photo: D Gregorie
- CHAPTERAntarctic Treaty nations: cosy club or environment protector?
- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERInternational Recognition for Dr Lance McCaskill
- CHAPTERMasons Bay, Stewart Island returns to full Crown control
- CHAPTERThird South Pacific National Parks and Reserves Conference Apia, June-July 1985
- CHAPTERReprieve for Spirits Bay shrublands but why not cut the clearance subsidies?
- CHAPTERConservation staff changes
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- CHAPTERFor whom the axe falls
- CHAPTERSubsidised drainage poses major threat to West Coast wetlands
- CHAPTERSummer programmes in our parks and reserves — an appreciation
- CHAPTEROld Blue: mother of the black robins
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- CHAPTERQUEEN ELIZABETH II SCHOLARSHIPS
- CHAPTERBENNETT'S HOLIDAY HOUSE
- CHAPTERTHE LATE GREAT MOA
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- CHAPTERBook Reviews
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