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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
- CHAPTERLimestone bridges, Waggon Creek,
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- CHAPTERBurning Issues
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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
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- CHAPTERANTARCTICA
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- ILLUSTRATIONMost people conceive of Antarctica as ice (above, the ice-cliffs of the Canada Glacier, Victoria Land); and penguins ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAlgae around the edge of a lake on Ross Island. All photos: Paul Broady.
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbout 2.4 percent of Antarctica's surface, equivalent to a little larger than New Zealand, is ice-free and hosts terr...
- ILLUSTRATIONA. The area of ice-free land on the Antarctic Continent (shaded). B. Microscopic plants, cells of algae from inside r...
- ILLUSTRATIONH. A worm-like nematode (x150). I. An eight-legged tardigrade (x150). J. A rotifer from pond water (x200). K.& L. Sin...
- CHAPTERHIGH COUNTRY LANDSCAPES
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- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Round Hill ponds near Lake Coleridge, a landscape that epitomises wide open spaces and freedom. Photo: Barney Br...
- ILLUSTRATIONIn grazed areas, tussocks are significant for breaking up the snow cover, allowing stock to feed. More emphasis must ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Some intrusions in the tussock landscape stand out starkly. Old Man Range, Central Otago. Photo: Graeme Loh.
- ILLUSTRATIONCentre: The establishment of exotic pasture alters the subtle patterns, colours and textures of the landscape, as wel...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Mackenzie Basin plantings. Conifer plantings become a focus in a tussock grassland landscape, disrupting the s...
- CHAPTERThe Ryton Station Case: Will DoC/Landcorp Partnership Work?
- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTEREnvironmental Education Appeal
- CHAPTERRotoehu Allocation Resolved
- CHAPTERPossums Eradicated
- CHAPTERAnti-fouling Paint Toxins
- CHAPTERDepartment of Conservation Community Conservation Working Holidays
- CHAPTERBooks Received
- CHAPTERRoots of Fire
- CHAPTERThe New Zealand Birdwatchers' Book,
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- CHAPTERConservation and the Human Factor —
- ILLUSTRATIONTame Iti, a leader of Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu, stands on the native forested mountain Taiarahia which his group succes...
- ILLUSTRATIONAorangi Mountain: The Department of Conservation has begun discussions with the Maori owners to find a way of protect...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe free operation of market forces resulted in this woodchip logging above Marlborough's picturesque Pelorus River. ...
- CHAPTERHoneydew
- ILLUSTRATIONThe spread of wasps may have seen a corresponding decline in the numbers of honeydew eaters such as tui (pictured), b...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: What we see when walking through the forest — drops of sweet tasting honeydew at the end of the insect's white...
- ILLUSTRATIONOne of the villains of the piece? Since the 1950s wasps have been a nuisance both in the wild and in populated areas....
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: The large number of wasps seen suggest they must strongly reduce the number of native insects, such as cicadas...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: The question of whether scale insects — which create honeydew — benefit trees or not is a complex one to answer....
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Feeding on the sap of the tree, the honeydew beech scale insect passes unused sap and wastes out through this...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig.1 . A public appeal by DSIR Ecology Division for wasp samples has resulted in this 1987 common wasp distribution....
- ILLUSTRATIONFig.2. Simplified scheme of the ecological interrelationship surrounding honeydew in South Island beech forests. (Dra...
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- CHAPTERButterf ly Blues
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- ILLUSTRATIONHow can the two blue butterflies found in New Zealand be distinguished? The answer is "not easily"; but the diagnosti...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe upper surfaces of the wings are bright lilac blue in the male, edged with dark grey. Apart from the banding on th...
- ILLUSTRATIONFemales are grey on the upper surface with just a dusting of blue scales towards the base of the wings. They feed at ...
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: A larva of the common blue. In spite of their abundance. the caterpillars are seldom seen because they keep am...
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- CHAPTERBirds on the Wing
- ILLUSTRATIONPigeon leaving kowhai tree. Flash at 1/4000 sec. 100 ASA 120 film.
- ILLUSTRATIONWeka triggering micro-switch by stepping on branch. Flashes at 1/10,000 sec. 400 ASA 120 film.
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- ILLUSTRATIONKaka just touching down. Flashes at 1000 sec. 100 ASA 120 c. 100 ASA 120 film.
- ILLUSTRATIONKakariki leaping off branch. Flashes at 1/10,000 sec. 400 ASA 120 film.
- ILLUSTRATIONMale bellbird taking off. Flashes at 1/10,000 sec. 100 ASA 120 film.
- CHAPTERRubbishing the ocean
- ILLUSTRATIONWellingtonian Margaret Cochran created this colourful "environmental sculpture" when she came across a quantity of de...
- ILLUSTRATIONIt is estimated that anywhere between 300,000 and 700,000 seabirds are killed a year because of plastic garbage. This...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe marine environment is not the only one to suffer from the effects of petroleum-based products. Tongariro High Sch...
- ILLUSTRATIONForest and Bird executive member, Graeme Loh, found 14 drowned spotted shags recently caught in a set net in Otago Ha...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Cape Palliser seal colony and a seal with plastic strapping around its neck. Photo. Mike Price, MAF.
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- CHAPTERTIRI TIRI MATANGI
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: About 90 percent of Tiritiri Matangi was pasture before the revegetation project began. Since the early 1980s, 1...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Endangered species such as the North Island saddleback have been reintroduced on Tiri.
- ILLUSTRATIONThere is potential for others such as the little spotted kiwi (inset) to be located there too. Photos: Doc.
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- ILLUSTRATIONForest and Bird volunteers planting trees. Photo: Louise Stevens.
- ILLUSTRATIONFisherman Bay, where 200 penguins come to nest. Photo: Gordon Ell.
- CHAPTERNorth Shore Branch and Tiri
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- CHAPTERTHE DOWN UNDER DOLPHIN
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: A Hector's dolphin underwater in good visibility, a rare combination. Photo: Liz slooten
- ILLUSTRATIONInset: Two Hector's dolphins leap inside Banks Peninsula's Akaroa Harbour. Photo: Steve Dawson.
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: One of the local favorites, nicknamed "Rooster" because of his unusually shaped dorsal fin. The camera's data...
- ILLUSTRATIONHector's dolphin mother and her newborn calf. The youngster is about three weeks old. Photo: Steve Dawson.
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- CHAPTERFairydown
- ILLUSTRATIONPhoto: Jon Muir on the summit of Mt. Shivling.
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- CHAPTERTracks THE JUNIOR SECTION
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERSummer Camp
- CHAPTERWomen In The Wilderness
- CHAPTERGolden Bay Summer Gathering.
- CHAPTERObituary: Sir Charles Fleming
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- CHAPTERSubject and Author Index
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