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- CHAPTERWorld Heritage Partnership
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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERShedding Light on Blue Duck
- CHAPTERThe Bellbirds' Return
- CHAPTERQuarrel at Makereatu
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- CHAPTERBehind the Scenery
- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
- CHAPTERBooks Received
- CHAPTERWORLD WATCH
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- CHAPTERWhere the Wild Places Are
- CHAPTEREnergy Lessons
- CHAPTERPandering to Pandas
- CHAPTERSpotted Owl Cover Up
- CHAPTERSpace Wars
- CHAPTERLETTERS
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- CHAPTERA Fatal Attraction Fur Seals and Hoki
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand fur seal. Photo: David Comer
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- CHAPTERDiary of a Tragedy
- CHAPTERHooker's Sealion: Threatened Too
- CHAPTEROur Seal Heritage
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- CHAPTERMarine Reserves: Spreading the idea
- ILLUSTRATIONThe clear waters around Stewart Island support rich seaweed beds of bull kelp, important commercial species such as p...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeigh Marine Reserve: good for marine life, good for people. Photo: Bill Ballantine
- ILLUSTRATIONAt Leigh there are 20 times the crayfish in the reserve than in other stretches of our coastline.
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve is a haven for marine life. Here blue demoiselle and pink maomao gather at 40...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe slow growing, coastal reef fish red moki has been decimated by spearfishing in the last few decades. In Leigh Mar...
- CHAPTEROld Blue Award For Dr Bill Ballantine
- CHAPTERPollen Island Permanent protection sought
- ILLUSTRATIONPollen Island – a marine reserve within sight of Auckland Harbour Bridge? photo: Sylvia Donohue
- ILLUSTRATIONThe only habitat in the world of this moth (Bactra sp) is Pollen Island. Photo: Peter Maddison
- ILLUSTRATIONMap of the proposed Pollen Island marine reserve. Fernbirds and banded rails should continue to survive near the hear...
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- CHAPTERKakapo Cure
- CHAPTERKakapo tracks at George Sound
- ILLUSTRATIONThe well worn kakapo path on Saddle Hill, George Sound, in 1956. By 1989 the same path had become overgrown, sad sign...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe spectacular view from the heights of "kakapo castle", looking down into George Sound. Photo: B. Miles
- ILLUSTRATIONSketch of kakapo tracks at George Sound by John Buchan in 1863. (From Fiordland Explored by John Hall-Jones).
- CHAPTERWOODCHIPPING - THE FACTS
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- ILLUSTRATIONClearfelling for woodchipping, August 1989, adjoining the Tinline Scenic Reserve in Marlborough. Photo: Craig Potton
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- CHAPTERCosta Rica
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe Quetzal, considered by some as the most beautiful bird in the world. Crimson-fronted parakeet. Photo: Chris Thomas
- ILLUSTRATIONIguanas spend much of their time feeding and resting in the tops of trees. Chris Thomas A familiar toad of the Costa ...
- ILLUSTRATIONMonte Verde reserve, host to a rich assortment of wildlife, including the Quetzal. Photo: Margaret Peace
- ILLUSTRATIONA Passiflora vitifolia vine flower photographed in Corcorada National Park. It is pollinated by the hummingbird. Phot...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe shrinkage in distribution of closed canopy forest in Costa Rica from 1940 to the present. Only the volcano slopes...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe largest of Latin American butterflies, Morpho peleides.
- ILLUSTRATIONMargaret Peace from Blenheim is a former member of Forest and Bird’s executive. Male and female golden toad. Photo: M...
- CHAPTERWETA WARFARE
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: "Jaws" in close up, showing the remarkable 2.5 cm long tusks of the male. The ridges at the top of the tusks g...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe beginning of a fight between the male on the right who has just emerged from his burrow under a fallen log and is...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe two animals squaring up for a face-off. The tusks are opened so they resemble bulls' horns, and the wetas' hind l...
- ILLUSTRATIONBoth males have engaged horns, and much of the fight progresses like this, becoming an exercise in pushing and stamin...
- ILLUSTRATIONMale and female wetas, showing the total absence of a tusk on the female.
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- CHAPTERFEARS Fezzet
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- ILLUSTRATIONContrary to regulations, fitch farms such as these have little in the way of security. Animals are supposed to be enc...
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: Ferrets – no friend to native birds since their introduction in the 1890s. The fine for releasing any numbe...
- ILLUSTRATIONOne of the worst farms that Acclimatisation Society officers have come across is this one in the Waikato. Note the in...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe ferret depicted by artist Cynthia Cass doing what it was brought into the country to do: killing rabbits. However...
- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND'S Elusive Native Bats
- ILLUSTRATIONThe lesser short-tailed bat.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe long tailed bat is the most common of our two native bats. Photo: Doc.
- ILLUSTRATIONLONG-TAILED BAT
- ILLUSTRATIONLESSER SHORT-TAILED BAT
- ILLUSTRATIONGREATER SHORT-TAILED BAT (extinct)
- CHAPTERRare plants of Waima Forest
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Hauturu trig, looking east to Mt Misery, the highest point in Northland. Several new plant species have recently ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONTop Left: Coprosma waima which is found only in Waima forest, and in flower (left).
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- ILLUSTRATIONOlearia waima.
- ILLUSTRATIONThis attractive Hebe was discovered on the exposed Hauturu cliffs. All photos Ewen Cameron.
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- CHAPTERFORUM
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- CHAPTERGreen Shoots, Rotten Roots
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERBird Surveys — Your Help Wanted
- CHAPTERBooks Received
- CHAPTERHikurangi House
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- CHAPTERSubject and Author Index Volume 20, Number 1-4
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