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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
- CHAPTERUntitled
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- CHAPTERTropical Rainforest Destruction — A Global Problem
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- CHAPTERPACIFIC TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: The Samoan lifestyle is closely linked to the forest, and is seriously affected if the forest is removed. T...
- ILLUSTRATIONMap of the South Pacific
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: Log exporters ransacking the tropical forests leave behind the lower section of the trunk with its big plank b...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow right: Logs stacked awaiting export at a jetty at Asau in Western Samoa. This is a scene that is becoming more ...
- CHAPTERBEYOND THE PALMY BEACHES
- ILLUSTRATIONThe tree fern, Cyathea decurrens, is discovered in the lower valleys of Rarotonga. Photo: Ewen Cameron
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: A seedling of the ancient Fijian podocarp Decussocarpus vitiensis is not unlike our own miro. Photo: Guy Salmon
- ILLUSTRATIONPacific Islands such as Samoa offer much to the tourist interested in natural history. The Togitogiga Recreation Rese...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe unusual Rarotongan tree, Fitchia speciosa, is fast growing with large heads like orange-tipped globe artichokes. ...
- CHAPTERBIRDS AT RISK in the Pacific
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Rarotonga starling, a species endemic to the island, is restricted to unmodified forest. Photo: Rod Hay
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Rarotonga flycatcher, or kakirori, is one of the rarest birds in the world, with only between 20-30 birds remaini...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe core habitat of the only surviving population in Tonga of the red-breasted musk parrot, Prosopeia tabuensis, will...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: The Samoan broadbill on a Hoya vine. Photo: Mark Bellingham
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- ILLUSTRATIONWork is already being done to preserve some areas in New Caledonia where the cagou (inset) survives. Here a reserves ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAn eruption near the turn of the century covered more than 50 sq km of Savaii with lava like this. Natural events can...
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- CHAPTERNATIONAL PARKS Seeking a South Pacific way
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- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: In the Pacific there is very little public land. More than 90 percent of the region's native forests are ow...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: The needs of the shifting cultivator or subsistence farmer can conflict with national parks, unless the needs ...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: In Samoa, decisions about lands and forests are of the highest importance. Such decisions are taken by the chi...
- CHAPTERProtected natural areas in the South Pacific
- ILLUSTRATIONA river fisherman on New Caledonia's forested east coast. Traditional conservation practices in fisheries and forest ...
- ILLUSTRATIONRanger Kolati Poai at the O Le Pupu-Pu'e National Park information centre fale, Samoa. Photo: Mark Bellingham
- ILLUSTRATIONFiji's rare endemic crested iguana was recently protected in a sanctuary on Nadua Taba Island, with the co-operation ...
- CHAPTERProtected areas by country
- CHAPTERSOUND POLICY NEEDED
- ILLUSTRATIONMaud Island, showing the total extent of native bush left after burning for the original farm. The island is the only...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe summit of Mt Stokes (1204m), the only Sounds site with alpine vegetation. Healthy tussock and Olearia are found i...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeaving Tory Channel, early morning ferry. Photo: T. Fitzgibbon
- ILLUSTRATIONGannets nesting at the end of Waimaru Peninsula, Pelorous Sound. There are now about 60 nests in use, developed from ...
- CHAPTERA vision for Walpoua
- ILLUSTRATIONProfessor Barney McGregor, chief advocate for Waipoua Sanctuary.
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: The white rata vine, Metrosideros albiflora, an attractive climbing plant found throughout kauri forests. P...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: The picturesque Waipoua River viewed from the Waipoua bridge. It has been suggested that the main factor in sa...
- ILLUSTRATIONKauri regeneration in the proposed Sanctuary extension. Fossilised kauri trunks in the sandhills show that these gian...
- ILLUSTRATIONMap of proposed Waipoua extension. Bush on private land in state pine forests.
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- CHAPTEREarnslaw Station A case history
- ILLUSTRATIONSevere geological erosion above the Earnslaw Burn. The land above the forest is in pastoral lease, and the National P...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe imposing Turret Head (2340m.) Everything in this photograph is within pastoral lease, even though all the land ab...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig 1: Earnslaw Station showing present land tenure.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig 2: Earnslaw Station showing proposals for resumption.
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- ILLUSTRATIONPart of the extensive beech forests within the lease which the High Country Public Lands Coalition wants to see resum...
- CHAPTERPARTNERSHIP for PRODUCTION and PROTECTION
- ILLUSTRATIONSimon Cameron's support means that Ben Ohau Station's Pukaki river flats could soon be New Zealand's premier protecte...
- ILLUSTRATIONRaupo lagoon and the Ben Ohau Range — a priority natural area on Ohau Downs pastoral lease. Photo: Gerry McSweeney
- ILLUSTRATIONShort tussock is threatened not just by cultivation and topdressing but also by rabbits and Hieracium flatweed which ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe devastating impact of rabbits on a Ben Ohau Station fence post. From left to right Simon Cameron (runholder, Ben ...
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- CHAPTERMOA'S ARK the natural world of the Moa
- CHAPTERRestoring MANA
- ILLUSTRATIONMana Island lies 2.5 km off the west coast just north of Wellington. Long stripped of virtually all its native vegeta...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: Mana's bulls, havoc on the hoof for the island's remnant forest. Photo: T. Fitzgibbon
- ILLUSTRATIONStill surviving under the skirts of Mana's tauwhinu bush, the giant weta Deinacrida rugosa is one of the heaviest ins...
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERGood news for the rare takahe
- CHAPTERLetters to MPs exempt postage
- CHAPTERA marine reserve for the Kermadec Islands?
- CHAPTERHopes high to save Karamea's Oparara forests
- CHAPTERWhakatane farmers back bush protection campaign
- CHAPTERWater exports evaporate?
- CHAPTERKini swamp next doomed West Coast wetland
- CHAPTERBIRDS CAMPAIGN in flight
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERJames Sharon Watson Conservation Trust Applications for 1986 Grant
- CHAPTERThe best bequest
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- CHAPTERSTEWARDSHIP an idea whose time has come
- ILLUSTRATIONA vast expanse of broken bush country extends from the Matemateonga walkway east to Mt Ruapehu. Apart from a narrow r...
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- ILLUSTRATIONRed beech forests at Station Creek, Maruia Valley, the summer before woodchip logging and the winter after (inset). U...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe huge extent of the South Island high country, 10 percent of New Zealand's land area. This pastoral lease land sho...
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- CHAPTERROYAL FOREST & BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC.
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- CHAPTERSociety's Lodges and Houses
- CHAPTERBooks Received
- CHAPTERConcise Encyclopaedia of Natural History,
- CHAPTERA Field Guide to the Lizards of NZ,
- CHAPTERThe New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Digest,
- CHAPTERKokako,
- CHAPTERMoa, the story of a fabulous bird,
- CHAPTERRemote the Land's Heart,
- CHAPTERField Guide to New Zealand Geology,
- CHAPTERLands in Collison,
- CHAPTERThe Atlas of Bird Distribution in New Zealand,
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