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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
- CHAPTERMolesworth — Commerce before Conservation?
- CHAPTERLessons from the Past
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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
- TABLE_OF_CONTENTSCONTENTS
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- CHAPTERCRUNCH TIME FOR WEST COAST RAINFORESTS
- ILLUSTRATIONThe inquisitive South Island robin strongly prefers beech forested valley floor habitats, which would be greatly affe...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe Mesozoic rainforests of ancient Gondwanaland survive in New Zealand's beech and podocarp rainforests. Tall-standi...
- ILLUSTRATIONSteep slopes, a raw wound. Forest Service chipwood logging has stripped away both forest and soil, leaving bedrock ex...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe proposed North Westland wildlife corridor follows these forested hills across the grasscovered plains of the Grey...
- ILLUSTRATIONThis picture sums up the typical inadequacy of the existing system of reserves in North Westland: the lowland forests...
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- ILLUSTRATIONIf accepted by the Government, the proposed Tawhai extension to the Big River ecological reserve will be New Zealand'...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe future of the Ahaura Gorge's superb rimu forest — and other Central Westland podocarp forests — is still uncertai...
- CHAPTERKey Reserve Features
- CHAPTERNATIVE BIRD MANAGEMENT
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- CHAPTERForest Size and the Future of the kokako
- CHAPTERKAKAPO
- ILLUSTRATIONRadio-telemetry is used extensively in the battle to save the kakapo, an essential tool for the dense forest and alpi...
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: The "Kastle", on top of which male kakapo have been observed booming to the valley below. Unfortunately, no...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset top: Light-intensifying 'scopes have allowed scientists to observe kakapo by night, and see for the first time ...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset bottom: One of the few remaining kakapo known to exist in Fiordland held by Principal Wildlife Officer Dick And...
- ILLUSTRATIONNew accommodation (right) is a vast improvement on the traditional, more cramped A-frame. Photo: R Anderson
- CHAPTERRichard Henry, early conservationist
- CHAPTERCaptive Rearing Of Takahe
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: A takahe emerges out of a tussock igloo as a Wildlife Officer comes in from the other side in search of fertile ...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Takahe eggs hatching in the incubator. Photo: Craig Robertson.
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Takahe chicks reared artifically have as little human contact as possible. Here a model surrogate parent made fr...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Near Lake Te Anau, the Wildlife Service has fenced off a 10-hectare area against predators. Plans are to do l...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe takahe's method of feeding actually promotes tussock growth, whereas wapiti grazing stunts the plants. Photo: Pet...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe rugged Murchison Mountains, last outpost of the takahe which was dramatically rediscovered in 1948. Photo: Peter ...
- CHAPTERWhose rights?
- CHAPTERIn the Rainforest
- CHAPTERThrough a lens naturally
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand birds are notoriously difficult to photograph, especially in the forest. A telephoto lens and large reser...
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- ILLUSTRATIONTop: A forest gecko photographed in Tararua State Forest Park. Although quite common, the gecko is difficult to find ...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: The delicate forked tail of the white-fronted tern has given it the name of "sea swallow". Such beautiful phot...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Using a wide angle – 15mm – lens, the author has here moved In very Close to the shrub fire, involving the vie...
- ILLUSTRATIONEarly morning, Rangipo Desert, Tongariro National Park. In this case the photographer had to work fast before the dra...
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- CHAPTERMOAWHANGO ECOLOGICAL DISTRICT a biogeographic hot spot
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Makirikiri tarns – site of special plants near Aorangi on the Mangaohane Plateau. The bog pine-dominated shrubs ...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Secreted away east of the Desert Road in army territory, the intermontane basins of the Moawhango River are h...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: Myosotis Sp. (M. pygmaea var. glauca) restricted to the upper Moawhango headwaters, is cryptically camouflaged...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAorangi mountain is of immense Maori cultural, scenic and scientific importance. The concept of Maori reservation, Ng...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: The anti-browse divaricating strategy of the Central North Island endemic Pittosporum turneri is well illustra...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: New Zealand's 268 ecological districts. The Moawhango district, surrounded by Central North Island mountains, h...
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- CHAPTEROPERATION BIRD COUNT
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- ILLUSTRATIONTop: The Totorore expedition spent a month patiently counting the 34,000 king penguins in St Andrews Bay, South Georg...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Elephant seals at St Andrews Bay, South Georgia. Photo: Chris Sale
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Wandering albatrosses were also the subject of intense counting. Here, on frozen Anenkov Island (just off Sout...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Totorore, built by Forest and Bird member Gerry Clark of Kerikeri, sails by Giekie Glacier, South Georgia.Photo: ...
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- CHAPTERTHE JUNIOR SECTION
- CHAPTERHOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE CALLED BEAKHEAD?
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- CHAPTERHOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE CALLED BEAKHEAD?
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- CHAPTERSAVEUS COMPETiTiON
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- CHAPTERROYAL FOREST & BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC.
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERJS WATSON CONSERVATION AWARDS
- CHAPTERBushy Park Management Plan
- CHAPTERThe best bequest
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- CHAPTEROBITUARY
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERSouth Pacific Appeal
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- CHAPTERProtected Natural Areas Programme
- CHAPTERSpotted grouper protected
- CHAPTERConserving our future
- CHAPTERConservation News
- CHAPTERPhotographers!
- CHAPTERSubject and Author Index
- CHAPTERBooks Received
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- CHAPTERSociety's Lodges and Houses
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