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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
- ILLUSTRATIONArchey's frog, photographed near Tapu on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Peninsula is the only locality where this frog...
- CHAPTERNational Parks: Our Premier Natural Places
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- CHAPTERParks of the People
- ILLUSTRATIONA tourist party on the Franz Josef Glacier, 1906. Photo: Canterbury Museum
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: The mineral rich waters of Emerald Lake on the slopes of Mt Tongariro, Tongariro National Park. Photo: Eric Ta...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Pioneer ecologist Leonard Cockayne was a strong advocate about the turn of the century for the establishment o...
- ILLUSTRATIONParamount chief Te Heuheu Tukino IV Horonuku's gift of 2600 ha of the central North Island created New Zealand's firs...
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand's latest national park, the Whanganui, was Officially declared open at a ceremony on the Pipiriki marae a...
- ILLUSTRATIONBy the 1970s conservationists were demanding lowland forest areas with production potential to become part of the nat...
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- ILLUSTRATIONTourism has been a strong influence in the shaping of our national park system even before the 1890s when Thomas Mack...
- ILLUSTRATIONThis 1930s Railways poster has an almost military aspect. Photo: Alexander Turnbull Library
- ILLUSTRATIONThe creation of most of New Zealand's national parks has demanded little economic sacrifice, since by far the majorit...
- CHAPTERNational Parks
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe myth (left) opposed to the reality (right) of the majority of national park visitors. Most people like to walk, s...
- ILLUSTRATIONConstraints on use. The bars illustrate the proportion of respondents that gave each reason.
- ILLUSTRATIONSome national parks are better known than others. This graph shows the proportion of people who named each park from ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe mere fact that national parks exist is sometimes cited as a benefit — making people feel good that areas are bein...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Most people surveyed regarded preservation as the principal purpose of national parks, with recreation placed ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove and right: The national park system caters for different types of visitors with facilities that range from inte...
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- CHAPTEROte Makura Reserve a combined approach
- CHAPTERPurchase or pressure — options for private forest protection
- CHAPTERThe case for the BLACK STILT
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERRates rebate helps save forest
- CHAPTERTakahe impasse to clear?
- CHAPTERCrown Land carve up
- CHAPTERLand fiasco averted
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Deputy Prime Minister, Geoffrey Palmer, receives the Public Lands Coalition Crown land allocation submission from...
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- ILLUSTRATIONFrom left, Maureen Burgess (Lower Hutt), Don Eade (Canterbury), Fergus Sutherland (Southland) and deputy president Go...
- ILLUSTRATIONConservation Department director-general Ken Piddington, deputy director-general Alan Edmonds and Forest and Bird pre...
- ILLUSTRATIONFormer Executive member Stewart McKenzie (Wanganui) makes a farewell speech.
- CHAPTERGolden Bay Summer Gathering
- CHAPTERAnnual General Meeting
- CHAPTERSouth-West World Heritage
- CHAPTERBooks Received
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- CHAPTEROF HERBS AND HERPS —The possible roles of lizards in plant reproduction
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: While feeding on nectar from flax flowers a giant gecko becomes covered in pollen – visible here on its jaws, ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: When feeding from pohutukawa flowers Pacific geckos crawl over the blossoms and push their heads down between t...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Pacific geckos congregate on newly opened pohutukawa flowers to feed on nectar. As many as five geckos have be...
- ILLUSTRATIONMiddle: Competition amongst lizards for fruit is so fierce in some places that ripe berries are plucked straight from...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Geckos which feed on nectar commonly accumulate large amounts of pollen on their throats – here yellow pohutuk...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: A ripe karaka berry is more than a mouthful for a giant gecko. Maori history tells of feeding large pet lizard...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Birds have usually been considered the seed dispersal agents of fleshy fruits, particularly those that are red...
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- CHAPTERThe Ashley
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Fluffy balls of fur, two wrybill chicks lie well camouflaged among the greywacke riverbed shingle.
- ILLUSTRATIONCentre: The curious wrybill, the only bird in the world with a sideways turning beak, breeds in the braided river bed...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Wildlife Officer Ken Hughey shows, from left, Nicola Stevens (pupil), Barbara Spurr (teacher) and Keryn Ricker...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: The black-fronted tern nests only in the shingle riverbeds of the South Island.
- CHAPTERWhat Happened to the MOA?
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- CHAPTERDUCKS UNLIMTED
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Between 1974 and 1984 the grey teal population jumped from 20,000 to 40,000. The increase is accounted for by th...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Hopes of saving brown teal rest in its adaptation to captivity, according to wildlife experts. Largest number...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: New Zealand's rarest mainland waterfowl is the brown teal. Since 1976 Ducks Unlimited have released 550 into the...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: How "natural" is it to intervene with a species to this extent? The author argues that humans have a moral re...
- CHAPTERTHE JUNIOR SECTION
- CHAPTERTracks
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- ILLUSTRATIONGulls wheeling over a boat in Hokianga Harbour. Photos: Terry Fitzgibbon
- CHAPTERGulls... food for thought
- CHAPTERJOIN THE DOTS &' COLOUR-IN
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- CHAPTERTHE'K'TEAM Once More to the rescue!
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- CHAPTERTracks
- CHAPTERSCIENTIFIC CATCHING
- CHAPTERWhale of a Loophole
- CHAPTERWhale Numbers
- ILLUSTRATIONWhen Greenpeace activist Mark Roach chained himself to this Japanese "scientific" whaling boat in Wellington Harbour ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThese winches are used to haul whales up to the sides of the "scientific" whaling boats until they meet with the fact...
- ILLUSTRATIONA minke whale recently photographed in Akaroa Harbour. Minke are the main whales hunted in Antarctica by the Japanese...
- CHAPTERSTOP PRESS STOP PRESS
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERJS Watson Conservation Trust Grant
- CHAPTERNotice of a Special General Meeting
- CHAPTERNew Subscription Rates
- CHAPTERTussock Grasslands – Landscape Values and Vulnerability
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- ILLUSTRATIONPhoto: P and J Morrin
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