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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
- ILLUSTRATIONNational parks, reserves and forest conservation lands have long been protected from mining by the Minister of Conser...
- CHAPTERGoing Easy on the Earth
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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
- TABLE_OF_CONTENTSCONTENTS
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERA Red Letter Day
- CHAPTERSouth Pacific Appointment
- ILLUSTRATIONAbraham Baeanisia
- CHAPTERTourism Comes to Whirinaki
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- CHAPTERPlants to Protect
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- ILLUSTRATIONAuthors of the Threatened Plants of New Zealand, David Given and Catherine Wilson.
- CHAPTERGiant Weta Breeding Success
- CHAPTERAn Arresting Sight
- CHAPTERThe Forest Carpet
- CHAPTERTaking the Sting Out of the Wasp Problem
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- CHAPTERWORLD WATCH
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- CHAPTERParrot Crisis
- CHAPTERDiesel Pollution Solutions
- CHAPTEREnvironment vs Arms
- CHAPTERThatcher's Image Undone
- CHAPTERWhales for Sale?
- CHAPTERHydrogen — Car Fuel of the Future?
- CHAPTERBooks Received
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- CHAPTERThe brave new world of SUSTATNABLE DEVELOPMENT
- ILLUSTRATIONAround the world, many eyes of the conservation community are focusing on New Zealand. What is exciting their attenti...
- ILLUSTRATIONWhat kind of a non-sustainable world are we bequeathing to our children? Future generations will not forgive us if we...
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- ILLUSTRATIONGeoffrey Palmer: backing sustainability and development.
- CHAPTERTHE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REFORM — WILL IT FIT THE BILL?
- CHAPTERThe Numbers Game
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- CHAPTERSustainability of SPECIES and ECOSYSTEMS
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe remnants of two once numerous New Zealand species which never made it into the 20th Century: the preserved skin a...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe huia, one of the spectacular bird species lost in the last 100 years. Photo: Rod Morris
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- ILLUSTRATIONA plague of possums threatens New Zealand's biodiversity as surely as logging, albeit at a slower rate. Scientists ca...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe graph of destruction Current estimates suggest that we are losing one species a day from the 5-20 million species...
- ILLUSTRATIONNo cause for mirth: the extinct laughing owl, one of the few nocturnal bird predators New Zealand had. Photo: Rod Morris
- CHAPTERDeer: Game or Pest?
- CHAPTERTowards ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY in New Zealand
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe future for the Southland countryside? If present rates of power consumption continue without corresponding energy...
- ILLUSTRATIONPercentage consumption by fuel in 1987 (million tonnes oil equivalent)
- ILLUSTRATIONHydro power provides 80 percent of New Zealand's energy needs. While hydro is a favoured form of energy, there is als...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Beehive uses three times as much energy as efficient high rise buildings.
- ILLUSTRATIONNZ ENERGY FLOWS: 1987
- ILLUSTRATIONNEW ZEALAND RECOVERABLE RESOURCE
- ILLUSTRATIONA home built for the sun, with solar panels and direct gain. It has been estimated that such simple efficiency measur...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAuthor Bill Brander with energy efficient light bulbs. The price of the bulbs at approximately $50 each is prohibitiv...
- CHAPTERGLOBAL TRENDS IN ENERGY USE
- CHAPTERGARBAGE Living in a throwaway world
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- ILLUSTRATIONOne of the real limits to growth in the future will not be lack of resources, but the capacity of the environment to ...
- ILLUSTRATIONIn the late 1980s the plastic milk bottle was unleashed on the public. Unhappy environmental groups in Auckland combi...
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- ILLUSTRATIONSource: Tong & Associates
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Lower Hutt City Council chose to dump thousands of litres of oil in its Silverstream tip because it would cost no...
- ILLUSTRATIONOil and water do not mix that's according to the Lower Hutt City Council which claims the 80,000 litres of oil recent...
- CHAPTERRates of Return
- CHAPTERSustainability and LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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- ILLUSTRATIONThrough planning controls, local government can ensure attractive, historic buildings are retained. Public Trust Buil...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLocal councils have a vital role to play in issues such as transport. They can either allow commuting cars to clog up...
- ILLUSTRATIONAllan Hallett is a computer consultant who has been active in environmental movements in the UK and New Zealand. He h...
- CHAPTERBehind the FARM GATE
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- ILLUSTRATIONStudies in Wairoa, near where this photo was taken, have shown that such slips may take up to 50 years to recover, an...
- ILLUSTRATIONWorld Fertiliser Use in Tonnes
- ILLUSTRATIONBush-covered gullies left during bush clearance mean clean water and stable soil. Photo: Di Lucas
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- ILLUSTRATIONTwo contrasting methods of dealing with pests: on the one hand encouraging ground cover for predatory mites and thus ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Lessons learned too late: note the band aids in the form of exotic pine trees, applied after all native cover h...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow Left & Right: Working with nature: Cabbages, interplanted with dill plants to reduce aphid attack on the cabbages.
- ILLUSTRATIONWhitefly in glasshouses can be controlled with yellow sticky boards. Photos: Lincoln University Entomology Dept.
- CHAPTERFOREST & BIRD INTERVIEW
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- CHAPTERCHIONOCHLOA SPIRALIS
- ILLUSTRATIONElsewhere deer (inset) have eaten the palatable species out. Photos: Roger Lavers
- ILLUSTRATIONC. spiralis survives only on inaccessible bluffs such as these in Takahe Valley.
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe lone Chionochloa spiralis remaining in front of the Luxmore Caves in Fiordland. photo: Loyd Homer Geological Survey
- CHAPTERGetting to grips with Old Man's Beard
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: A general view of old man's beard infestation on slopes adjacent to the school project area. Photo: Doc
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Tahunanui school children gazing at one of the few remaining mature podocarps in the area, providing them with...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: Children looking at the tangle of vines they are about to clear. Photo: Earle Norriss
- ILLUSTRATIONThe real work begins. Each of the Nelson schools is responsible for keeping their strip of land free of weeds once th...
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- CHAPTERSaline-loving Plants of Central Otago
- ILLUSTRATIONLepidium matau, one of New Zealand's rarest plants, in full flower at the Galloway Station saline area near Alexandra...
- ILLUSTRATIONDoC scientist Brian Patrick examines outcrops of the glasswort, Sarcocornia quinqueflora at Belmont in the Maniototo ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONSalt-tolerant survivor: Atriplex buchananii on a parched saline area in the Manuherikia Valley near Alexandra. Photo:...
- ILLUSTRATIONMichael Beattie Points out a plant of Lepidium sisymbrioides, in flower on his family's Patearoa farm, Maniototo Vall...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe bright-yellow flowers of the cushion plant, Myosotis uniflora, add colour to an expanse of Craspedia daisies next...
- CHAPTERFORUM
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERFLEMING CONSERVATION AWARDS
- CHAPTERJohn Lees — Friend of the Forest
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- CHAPTERLetters
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- CHAPTERROYAL FOREST & BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC.
- CHAPTERSOCIETY'S LODGES AND HOUSES
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- ILLUSTRATIONA recent photograph of a minke whale surfacing in Palliser Bay near Wellington to inspect a fishing boat. There are t...
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