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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
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- CHAPTERLAND ALONE ENDURES
- ILLUSTRATIONSandra Lee: Conservation movement must be fair and consistent over Maori issues. Photo: Gary Baigent
- ILLUSTRATIONIs it appropriate in the 20th century to allow Kereru harvesting, as some Maoris would wish? Sandra Lee argues that t...
- ILLUSTRATIONSandra Lee and her great aunt, a kaumatua, at Arahura, near Hokitika.
- ILLUSTRATIONIslands in the Gulf. Looking out to Little Barrier Island from Waiheke Island, where Sandra Lee lives. Photo: Gordon ...
- CHAPTEROUR KAURI HERIT AGE
- ILLUSTRATIONLake Ohia. Remains of a kauri forest from more than 30,000 years ago are preserved in the peaty lake waters. Forest a...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe mighty kauri, symbolic tree of the north. 190 years after Europeans first started to exploit this stately tree, r...
- ILLUSTRATIONKauri forest understorey. Photo: Brian Enting
- ILLUSTRATIONThe rare orchid Yoania australis was not described until 1963. This elusive orchid is found under taraire trees withi...
- ILLUSTRATIONPart of the kauri story is the human history. Kauri dams are a testimony to the ingenuity of pioneer bushmen, althoug...
- ILLUSTRATIONMaori legend records that the Mamari canoe was wrecked just south of the Maunganui Bluff on Northland's west coast an...
- ILLUSTRATIONPublic lands proposed for Northland Kauri National Park
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERFiordland's Kepler Track Opened
- CHAPTERCongratulations to Telecoms
- CHAPTERTBT in Mammals
- CHAPTERSouth West Tours Popular
- CHAPTERForest and Bird SOUTH WESTLAND ADVENTURE TOURS
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- CHAPTERTHE GREAT SUBMISSION WRITING EXERCISE
- CHAPTERA WARNING TO US ALL
- CHAPTERGiant Wetas
- ILLUSTRATIONWetas are vegetarians whose favoured foods are leaves. However, like this Kaikoura weta, they will also chew on bark....
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- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Quite different coloration sets the Mahoenui giant weta apart from its relatives. Like other northern-dwelling w...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: The only known habitat for the Mahoenui giant weta is this 300 ha expanse of gorse on King Country farmland. Wh...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Kaikoura giant wetas have been found in the last few years in rotten logs, scattered across scrubby farmland, ...
- ILLUSTRATIONGiant wetas used to be found in forest and scrub throughout New Zealand, but since the arrival of humans much of thei...
- CHAPTERHow you can help to save our giant wetas
- CHAPTERThe New Zealand Dotterel
- CHAPTERWHO IS HELPING HOIHO, THE YELLOW- EYED PENGUIN?
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe lighthouse at Moeraki Point has become a beacon of survival for many yellow-eyed penguins. Janice (pictured) and ...
- ILLUSTRATIONSouthern South Island: extent of forested land before 1840
- ILLUSTRATIONSouthern South Island: present forest cover and principal hoiho breeding areas on the mainland.
- ILLUSTRATIONStoats, ferrets and wild cats follow well-trodden trails to the penguins' nests to take the helpless chicks. Parents ...
- ILLUSTRATIONOtago scientist John Darby first drew attention to the serious plight of the yellow-eyed penguin in the early 1980s. ...
- ILLUSTRATIONIn their weakened and bedraggled condition, moulting penguins are easy targets for sharpshooters (left) and other pre...
- ILLUSTRATIONDuring this autumnal danger period, they seek out the haven of whatever shelter exists (right).
- ILLUSTRATIONAn introspective moment for hoiho before he travels inland to his nesting site. All photos Dean Schneider
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Curious but cautious, a chick sets out to explore the world around its nest site. This 7-week-old chick will b...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Unlike its relatives, the yellow-eyed will slip through fences, trundle through grass and hop over logs to reac...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: A handsome juvenile during preening.
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Casting a shadow along an Otago beach in the evening twilight, a lone yellow-eyed strides inland after a long ...
- CHAPTERFrom the Wet West to the Dry East
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- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Among glacial moraines known as the Mounds of Misery beside the Cox River there are small islands which have es...
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- ILLUSTRATIONPhoto: Mike Harding
- ILLUSTRATIONFar left: The spectacular Mounds of Misery viewed from Gray Hill. Scattered clumps of mountain beech date from pre-hu...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Red tussock cushion bog, Big Flora Stream. These wetlands are now most uncommon in the high country, the victi...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: The predominantly Nelson-Marlborough tree daisy Traversia baccharoides propped up by Forest and Bird president ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: The yellow flowering Leptinella dendyi (pictured) and its relative the black flowered L. atrata are distinctive...
- ILLUSTRATION(centre) and the succulent penwiper plant (right)
- ILLUSTRATIONAll these plants are predominantly found east of the present National Park boundary. Photos Mike Harding and Alan Mark.
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- CHAPTERTE WAIROA RESERVE
- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND'S PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS PROGRAMME
- CHAPTERWhat it has been, what it is and what it could be
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand divided up into 268 ecological districts based on climate, vegetation, soils and landforms.
- ILLUSTRATIONUpper Jordan Creek below Mt Whitecomb (1566m) on the Umbrella Mountains was recommended for protection in the Umbrell...
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- ILLUSTRATIONTop: At 1430 metres above sea level in the upper Nevis Valley of southern Central Otago are found these spectacular s...
- ILLUSTRATIONPNA surveyors in Coromandel Forest. (Left to right) Andy Garrick (team leader), Paula Broekhuizen and Gretchen Rasch....
- ILLUSTRATIONLooking across Whanarua Bay, Motu Ecological District, East Cape. Here is one of the few opportunities to protect a c...
- ILLUSTRATIONParahebe trifida, an alpine snowbank plant that was listed as "rare" by Dr David Given, was previously known from onl...
- CHAPTERConservation Groups and the Public Champion Representative Reserves
- CHAPTERWhat it has been, what it is and what it could be
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- CHAPTERTHE MEANING OF WORLD HERITAGE
- CHAPTERWonders of the World
- CHAPTERMANAGING FOR THE LONG TERM
- ILLUSTRATIONBankside Scientific Reserve, a pocket handkerchief grassland and shrub reserve (2.6 ha) on the Canterbury Plains has ...
- ILLUSTRATIONCatastrophic damage from windthrow (above) and snowbreak are an integral part of beech forest ecology; disturbance Is...
- ILLUSTRATIONHowever, in small forest remnants such as Torlesse Bush (below), extensive natural damage snowbreak has been followed...
- ILLUSTRATIONLarge natural areas such as this sand dune sequence south of Haast require little in the way of active management.
- ILLUSTRATIONDead adult kaikawaka in thin-barked totara forest, Purau Valley, Banks Peninsula. All photos David Norton.
- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERJ S Watson Conservation Trust Grants
- CHAPTERSummer Camp
- CHAPTERWilderness Areas in New Zealand
- CHAPTERAnnual General Meeting
- CHAPTERTauranga Summer Camp
- CHAPTERErrata
- CHAPTERBooks Received
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