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- CHAPTERUntitled
- CHAPTERChallenging times
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- CHAPTERTIDES OF CHANGE
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- ILLUSTRATIONUnder the new environmental administration, marine mammals will be in the care of the Department of Conservation. Dus...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: New Zealand's unspoilt coastline needs to be zealously guarded if it is to remain pristine. Pohutukawa at Nort...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Unwise developments are causing our virgin coastline to erode by the year. Natural erosion has its own method of...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Because it occurs over such a wide area, grazing has possibly the most devastating effect on estuaries and ti...
- ILLUSTRATIONEvident from miles away, the slick from Wellington's Moa Point sewage outfall befouls an attractive and rugged coastl...
- CHAPTERcatching up with popular expectations
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- ILLUSTRATIONFrom the land, from the water, or indeed from the air, it is exceedingly difficult to con template this coastline and...
- ILLUSTRATIONMost of the tidal platform uncovered at low water lies outside the park boundaries, but at least the high rocky stack...
- ILLUSTRATIONIn Abel Tasman National Park, it is the meeting of land and sea which has evoked the awe and inspiration leading to i...
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- CHAPTERMARINE RESERVES a tale of lost opportunities
- CHAPTERTHE UNDERWATER WORLD OF FIORDLAND
- ILLUSTRATIONThousands of years ago great glaciers gouged out Sounds such as Doubtful Sound, which stretches 30 km inland. The lan...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe fiords are the only places in New Zealand where a diver will come across a sea pen (Sarcophyllum bollonsi), altho...
- ILLUSTRATIONRock lobsters are common in the fiords since the sheer rock walls prevent fishermen from laying pots.
- ILLUSTRATIONTube anemone (Certianthus sp). Very common throughout the fiords in sandy pockets below 6 m, but very rare elsewhere ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe spiral feeding organ (lophophore) of the brachiopod after the top shell has been removed. Commonly known as lamp ...
- ILLUSTRATIONA | metre tall black coral colony suporting several perching snake stars. The largest population of the protected bla...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOrange lined perch (Lepidoperca) is a Tasmanian species which has also been collected as deep as 500 m on the Chatham...
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- CHAPTEREstuaries EXTRAORDINARY ECOSYSTEMS
- ILLUSTRATIONEstuaries are as productive as tropical rainforests, and four times more so than a good ryegrass pasture. The factor ...
- ILLUSTRATIONToo minute to be seen except with a microscope, meiofauna are found midway in the food chain between microbes such as...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe final actor in the food chain. Many wading birds such as this white faced heron have as their staple diet the ver...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe extraordinary productivity of the copepod is capitalised on by juvenile flatfish such as the sand flounder (above...
- CHAPTERA KERMADEC ISLANDS MARINE RESERVE?
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe presence of the hawksbill turtle gives a clue to the fact that the Kermadecs are in subtropical waters, although ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Kermadec Islands spotted grouper (pronounced groper) is one of the most intriguing inhabitants of the islands und...
- ILLUSTRATIONInstead of the massive coral reefs typical of tropical waters, Kermadec coral colonies grow to about two metres in di...
- ILLUSTRATIONA coastal view of Raoul Island from the weather office. To the left is Meyer Island. Photo: J Mazey
- ILLUSTRATIONThe gold ribbon grouper, common at the Kermadecs, but very rare in northern New Zealand. Photo: Malcolm Francis
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- CHAPTERTRIP of a LIFETIME
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- ILLUSTRATIONMale tomtit feeds black robin fledglings. Because some fostered black robins were found to be slightly mal-imprinted ...
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- ILLUSTRATION"In the bush we saw a snipe which looks like a miniature kiwi." This bird once inhabited all the Chatham Islands but ...
- ILLUSTRATIONChatham Island spiders are known for their large size; the survival of such spiders is evidence that remote islands a...
- ILLUSTRATIONSummit of South-East Island, 24/1/86. Pyramid Rock in distance. All but two in the photo are from Pitt Island. Left —...
- ILLUSTRATIONAt night grey backed storm petrels return to their burrows carefully constructed under dense vegetation to evade the ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe rare shore plover, only about 120 of which remain, although it was once widespread in mainland New Zealand. Today...
- CHAPTERLoving our National Parks to death
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- ILLUSTRATIONStorm clouds advance on Mt Ruapehu. Severe weather changes are not unusual occurrences in these mountains.
- ILLUSTRATIONNational Parks are places for the quiet contemplation of elemental forces; helicopters whirling noisily overhead have...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe inviolate character of Mt Ruapehu's Crater Lake must be protected from industrial noise and mechanical conveyance...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe strange and yet subtle detail of nature is seen in algae at Ketetahi hot springs and the minute native orchid.
- ILLUSTRATIONHow appropriate are industrial structures in national parks? A review of the Tongariro National Park management plan ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe carpark at Turoa looks like any downtown shopping mall conglomeration.
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- CHAPTERMOHUA a declining species
- ILLUSTRATIONMale yellowhead outside nest waits his turn to feed chicks inside. The female has just finished feeding and is about ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLike most birds, yellowheads are fastidious about keeping their nests clean. Here, a parent removes a fecal sac. Phot...
- ILLUSTRATIONFemale incubating chicks. Long-tailed cuckoos lay their eggs in about 12 percent of nests — only those large enough f...
- ILLUSTRATIONIdeal yellowhead habitat: unmodified red and silver beech forest growing on fertile alluvium of the Eglinton Valley f...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: Author Graeme Elliott climbs a lofty red beech tree to check on progress in a yellowhead nest. The nests tend ...
- ILLUSTRATIONA male yellowhead carrying food to its nest in a knothole in a large old silver beech tree. It's large old trees such...
- ILLUSTRATIONChipmilling operations such as this in the Rowallan Forests do nothing for the survival of yellowheads. A stop to log...
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- CHAPTERSilencing the Stihls in the Ahaura
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Ahaura River has carved a deep gorge through a sequence of six forested terraces. Logging has here cleared the fo...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: Logging started last February in Sale Area 628, the highest of the six Ahaura Gorge terraces, and involved cle...
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- ILLUSTRATIONMt Harata rises 1374m above the Grey River Valley, and forms part of the forested wildlife corridor linking the South...
- ILLUSTRATIONProtests against the logging included this vigil by West Coast and Canterbury conservationists, and finally met succe...
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- CHAPTERBranching out in WAITAKI
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: The yellow-eyed penguin — hoiho — is not only running out of room to live, but also food. However the fledgling ...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: The large Otago skink is currently found only from Middlemarch to the Lindis Pass, and much work is being don...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Waitaki branch members tramping up Upper Canyon Creek, investigating some of the retired land from the Canyon Cr...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: A short tussock grassland area in the Upper Waitaki, near Otematata — the sort of area that is being consider...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Waitaki branch's involvement with conservation issues runs from the sea to the mountains. In the high country mem...
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Life member Audrey Eagle with the prestigious Loder Cup, presented to her at the Walter Scott Reserve at Pirong...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: New President Dr Alan Mark presents retiring executive councillor Reg Janes (Tauranga) with a small token of a...
- CHAPTERNew Forest and Bird President
- CHAPTERJ.S. Watson Conservation Trust Grant (1987)
- CHAPTERSubscription & G.S.T.
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERSociety's Lodges and Houses
- CHAPTERBooks Received
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- CHAPTERUntitled
- ILLUSTRATIONCrinipellis procera. In twigs on forest floor, Silverstream, Lower Hutt. Common in forest litter and easily identifie...
- ILLUSTRATIONNidula candida. On fallen twigs, Whirinaki forest. The spores of the birds nest fungus are held in pellets within the...
- ILLUSTRATIONAseroa rubra (the stinkhorn flower). Flies feed on the spore-bearing brown gleba, attracted by its stench. Measures a...
- ILLUSTRATIONLate afternoon sun gives a pleasing effect to this image of a Xeromphalina tenuipes. Photo: Syd Moore
- CHAPTERUntitled
- CHAPTERBEYOND THE ROARING FORTIES
- CHAPTERTHE STORY OF NEW ZEALAND'S SUB-ANTARCTIC ISLANDS
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- CHAPTERTHE STORY OF NEW ZEALAND'S SUB-ANTARCTIC ISLANDS
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