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- COVER_SECTIONCover Section
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- ILLUSTRATIONCover: A dazzling array of forest and marine wildlife adorns the Forest and Bird Head Office at 172 Taranaki Street i...
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- CHAPTERThe costs of conservation
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- TABLE_OF_CONTENTSCONTENTS
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERFisheries research gets a boost
- CHAPTERSharks under threat
- CHAPTERThe Banks Peninsula track
- ILLUSTRATIONSadly, a common sight these days. Local DoC officer, Alistair Hutt, has been a tower of strength in working out strat...
- ILLUSTRATIONDuring the 89/90 season there was a 35 percent decline in numbers of yellow-eyed penguins on Banks Peninsula due to u...
- ILLUSTRATIONIncreasing awareness of the plight of the little blue and white-flippered penguins has several farmers out hunting fe...
- CHAPTERKahawai update
- CHAPTERWestland black petrel
- CHAPTERElectricity efficiency clarified
- CHAPTERPossum Busters
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- CHAPTERWORLD WATCH
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- CHAPTERNew evidence on ozone depletion
- CHAPTERIt's not easy being green
- CHAPTERNZ flatworm - wanted dead or alive
- CHAPTERBIRDS INTERNATIONAL
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- CHAPTERPelicans threatened
- CHAPTERAlbatross assisted
- CHAPTERGulf aftermath
- CHAPTERAntshrike rediscovered
- CHAPTERChinese gull habitat destroyed
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- CHAPTERBRANCHING OUT........
- CHAPTERFur seals at Muriwai
- CHAPTERWaiau River water rights
- CHAPTERBird minders guard New Zealand dotterel
- CHAPTEROutfall draws a storm of protest
- CHAPTERMoeraki helicopter grounded
- CHAPTERNorth Island weka recovery plan
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- CHAPTERPreserving the miracle
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Haast visitor centre under construction at the junction of the roads to Haast Pass, Fox Glacier, and Jackson Bay....
- ILLUSTRATIONFiordland crested penguins (Tawaki) coming ashore to feed their chicks on the Moeraki coastline. Inset: Close up of a...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOkuru potter and crayfisher, Jenny Barratt. "The World Heritage area hasn't even been promoted overseas for people to...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe new Hapuka Estuary track, south of Haast. The track passes through a sequence of vegetation from salt marsh sedge...
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand fur seal at Knights Point. A tagging programme of the 600-700 seal pups born each season on the Open Bay ...
- ILLUSTRATIONA guided canoe trip down the Moeraki River. "Within five minutes of leaving the State Highway people can be walking i...
- ILLUSTRATIONBrenda and Graham Monk at their Waituna Creek salmon farm. "Five years ago we didn't dream of getting into tourism." ...
- CHAPTERA warm welcome in the wilderness
- CHAPTERThe Hauraki Gulf: Aucklarnd's dumping ground
- ILLUSTRATIONRotted Ecklonia seaweed. When dump sediment accumulates around the bases of Ecklonia, this important seaweed rots lea...
- ILLUSTRATIONRangitoto from Tiritiri Matangi. To the right is the port company's north Rangitoto dredgings dump site. Photo: Tony ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONGolf ball sponges at progressively closer distances to the Milford Marina dump site showing the smothering impact of ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Public apathy to the impacts of dredge dumping in the waters of the Gulf is a concern. A public appeal to assis...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Browns Island, close to Auckland City, one of the port company's dredging dump sites. Photo: Eric Taylor/DAC
- ILLUSTRATIONSponges and other marine life cover rocks at the Noises — but will die if smothered by silt. Photo: Bruce Carter
- CHAPTERThe dumping process
- CHAPTERPollen Island Marine Reserve
- CHAPTERHauraki Gulf Marine Park
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- CHAPTERBLUE DUCK — Symbol of wild and untamed rivers
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- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Found only in New Zealand's back country rivers and streams, the blue duck is one of only a few birds in the wo...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Blue duck rest on riverside boulders during the day, but keep a watchful eye up and down the river. Photo: Ala...
- ILLUSTRATIONDepartment of Conservation staff (Murray Williams on right) taking measurements after banding a blue duck on the Mang...
- ILLUSTRATIONWestland's Toaroha River is typical blue duck habitat. The wild mountain rivers of the South Island's West Coast are ...
- ILLUSTRATIONBlue duck have large strong feet — an essential adaptation for survival in fast turbulent water. Photo: Alan Reith
- ILLUSTRATIONStyx River, Westland. Flooding is a common occurrence in mountain rivers and one of the major hazards for young blue ...
- CHAPTERA year in the life of a blue duck
- CHAPTEREffects of water diversion on the Whanganui whio
- CHAPTERKIWI RECOVERY UNDERWAY
- ILLUSTRATIONBrown kiwi pair at the nest. Photo: Rod Morris, DoC
- ILLUSTRATIONBrown kiwi footprints in sand dunes at Masons Bay, Stewart Island. The Stewart Island subspecies has the unusual habi...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLittle spotted kiwi, now extinct on the mainland, are thriving on Kapiti Island. photo: Peter Daniel, Doc.
- ILLUSTRATIONNorth Island brown kiwi killed by dogs. In 1987, about 500 kiwi were killed in Waitangi Forest, Northland, by a singl...
- ILLUSTRATIONBeehive launch of the Kiwi Recovery Plan, August 1991. Rt. Hon. Jim Bolger, Lindsay Pyne, Kevin Smith and Denis Marsh...
- ILLUSTRATIONPresent distribution of Kiwi
- CHAPTERKiwi Recovery Strategy — Aims and objectives
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- CHAPTERMegawatts or Negawatts
- ILLUSTRATIONLake Manapouri, saved from having its water level raised for increased power generation in the early 1970s, is now at...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: The Clyde Dam under construction showing how close Clyde is if the unstable scree slopes caused the proposed L...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: The environmental costs of power generation. Exposed shorelines on Lake Hawea after an extremely dry winter an...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig 1. Trend of energy per GDP in major OECD countries
- CHAPTEREnergy efficiency being left in the cold?
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- CHAPTERReining in the brumbies
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Tussock grasslands of the Awapatu Valley, Moawhango catchment, rapidly being degraded by trampling and grazing f...
- ILLUSTRATIONOver 1300 feral domestic horses exist in the Moawhango area. The descendants of escapes, strays and deliberate releas...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Moawhango area contains the last sizeable areas of tussock grasslands/shrubland systems that once stretched from ...
- ILLUSTRATIONValley floor wetlands such as this tarn in the Awatapu valley are the habitat of a number of rare or special native p...
- ILLUSTRATIONA quagmired wetland.
- ILLUSTRATIONA horse exclosure plot illustrating the grazing induced degradation of the tussock grassland community. If unchecked,...
- ILLUSTRATIONRed tussock killed by horse grazing. Photo: Geoff Rogers, FRI
- CHAPTERFeral horses — a personal account
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- CHAPTERInsect conservation
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite left: New Zealand's cicadas are very obvious from their song. Maori people identified different species from...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: The forest weevil Rhyncodes ursus is found throughout New Zealand, its larvae feed on dead beech and rimu wood...
- ILLUSTRATIONWetas are one of New Zealand's most distinctive insects. They range in size from small cave weta to giant weta the si...
- ILLUSTRATIONUnlike their overseas relatives, the New Zealand stick insects are flightless. The common stick insect, Micrarchus hy...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe endangered knobbled weevil Hadramphus stilbocarpae feeds on the coastal megaherbs Stilbocarpa lyallii and Anisoto...
- ILLUSTRATIONGrasshoppers are the major natural browsers of New Zealand's tussock grasslands. The grasshoppers have declined with ...
- CHAPTERCromwell chafer
- CHAPTERUnder-rated insects
- ILLUSTRATIONStephens Island ground beetle.
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- CHAPTERNatural Wellington - conservation in the capital
- ILLUSTRATIONFew cities in the world have such a splendid geographical setting as Wellington. Sadly, the coastal waters have been ...
- ILLUSTRATIONTapu Te Ranga is the island of Island Bay — one of Natural Wellington's sites of ecological significance. Photo: Pete...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Gorse has replaced forests on greywacke hills surrounding the capital. If protected from fire, it can provide ...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Regenerating native forest on Johnsons Hill. Photo: Peter Goodwin
- ILLUSTRATIONSiginificant ecological sites in Wellington City, identified in Wellington Branch's "Natural Wellington". Map: Chris ...
- ILLUSTRATIONCentre right: The 'Natural Wellington' team (left to right) Chris Mathieson, Maggy Wassilieff, Fiona Wilson, Bill Van...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom right: Wellington South Coast — home to seals, sea birds, a number of rare coastal plants and the endangered s...
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- CHAPTERPROFILE
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- CHAPTERBOOK REVIEWS
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- CHAPTERSubject and Author Index Vol. 22 No. 1-4
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- CHAPTERROYAL FOREST & BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC.
- CHAPTERSOCIETY'S LODGES AND HOUSES
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