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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERThe Vanua Levu Silktail — Future in the Balance
- CHAPTERThe Birders are Coming!
- CHAPTERWhale Listening
- CHAPTERGood News
- CHAPTERKermadec Islands Marine Reserve
- CHAPTERKokako Forest Saved
- CHAPTERKNOW YOUR WEEDS
- CHAPTERWild Ginger
- ILLUSTRATIONYellow ginger. Photo: Ewen Cameron
- ILLUSTRATIONKahill ginger. Photo: Gareth Eyres
- CHAPTERWild Ginger
- CHAPTERWORLD WATCH
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- CHAPTERHappy Earth Day
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- CHAPTERA Special Place jor Birds
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- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: The cagou, an ancient endemic species only distantly related to other bird families, is the symbol of New Caled...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Coy and seldom seen close up but filling the bush with its cries, the Rarotonga fruit dove is an endemic speci...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe shore plover, one of those special New Zealand species, now only found on Rangitira Island in the Chathams.
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite and below: The thirty or so remaining kakerori in Rarotonga are subject to a major effort to protect them fr...
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- ILLUSTRATIONTropical seabirds such as this red-footed booby at Tetiaroa Atoll are important guides to help local fishermen find t...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe rugged spires of Ua Pou Island, until recently home of the elegant pihiti or ultramarine lory. Unfortunately ship...
- CHAPTERThe Chatham Island Black Robin
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- ILLUSTRATIONOld Yellow (above), Old Blue's mate from 1979-83. At the time the photo was taken Old Yellow was — unbeknown to wildl...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Don Merton checks one of the tit foster parents. Photo: Rick Thorpe
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: The precipitous nature of Little Mangere Island's terrain Is shown In this photo of a wildlife officer climbin...
- ILLUSTRATIONAn incubator adapted as a brooder for transferring day-old robins from Mangere to South East Island. Photo: Don Merton
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- ILLUSTRATIONRick and Elsa, 5-week-old blacksrobin fledglings being fed by a Chatham Island fit foster-parent. Rick did not surviv...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe black robin programme could not have been successful without the cooperation of the Chatham Island tits which fos...
- ILLUSTRATIONDerek Brown carries out the delicate operation of placing a black robin egg into a tit nest. Photo: Rick Thorpe
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- ILLUSTRATIONBefore the last seven black robins were transferred from Little Mangere Island to adjoining Mangere Island in 1976, b...
- CHAPTERKea Creature of curiosity
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- ILLUSTRATIONPart of Mt Cook National Park showing the locations at which three breeding male kea (Geoffrey, Charles and Baldrick)...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe kea is our only native parrot which is still easily seen in the wild. However its curious nature has often been i...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe chicks (inset) are visited only by the mother. No amount of pleading from hungry chicks will entice the father in...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOne of the few kea nests observed in recent times is this one in a large hollow rata tree in Arthur's Pass National P...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe kea is usually described as an "alpine" parrot. However its favoured habitat is the timberline rather than the tr...
- ILLUSTRATIONIt is difficult not to want to feed kea, so entertaining are they as they display their dexterity. However, in the in...
- ILLUSTRATIONA kea nest, Mt Cook National Park. Photo: Kerry Wilson
- ILLUSTRATIONIn contrast to adults, juveniles are coloured yellow around the eyes and by the beak. Within three years they change ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Hooker Valley, Mt Cook National Park, typical habitat of the kea. Photo: Kerry Wilson
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- CHAPTERKea Crimes
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- CHAPTERISLANDS Refuges for Threatened Species
- CHAPTERPossum Peril
- CHAPTERShifting the balance
- CHAPTERThe 1080 Debate
- CHAPTERThe Timms Trap — Possum Trapping Made Easy
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- CHAPTERTHE AHURIRI ESTUARY The story of an urban wetland
- CHAPTERThe Witehead
- CHAPTERAmory Lovins
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