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• COVER_SECTIONCover Section
  • ILLUSTRATIONCover: Some of the best examples of New Zealand's rich mixed beech and podocarp forests remain in the limestone Opara...
• CHAPTERForest and Bird Easter Gatherings
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• CHAPTERA time to perform
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• TABLE_OF_CONTENTSCONTENTS
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• CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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  • CHAPTERKapiti Marine Reserve approved
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  • CHAPTERAlexandra chafer beetles
  • CHAPTERJapan and Taiwan to quit drift netting
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  • CHAPTERRadios and Judas goats
    • ILLUSTRATIONA goat being fitted with radio transmitter. PAUL HONDELINK/DOC
  • CHAPTERChatham Island parea
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe parea or Chatham Island pigeon is a subspecies of the kereru (New Zealand pigeon) and is larger, has greyer upper...
  • CHAPTERCabbage tree decline
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    • ILLUSTRATIONRoss Beaver examining a dead cabbage tree. NEW ZEALAND HERALD
  • CHAPTERMana Island rodent-free
  • CHAPTERPizzles add to credibility problem
    • ILLUSTRATIONCustoms Officer Robin O'Connor with the confiscated seal pizzles. CHRISTCHURCH STAR
  • CHAPTERWeka capture
    • ILLUSTRATIONHelping a weka into the transfer box. Paul Jansen, DoC (centre) with Hugh McKergow and Richard Chambers, Forest and B...
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• CHAPTERWORLDWATCH
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  • CHAPTERSanto starling survives!
  • CHAPTERNew threat to the Indian rhino
  • CHAPTERMitsubishi Man
  • CHAPTERLooking up for Southern Ocean birds
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  • CHAPTERTerns recovering after fishery closed
  • CHAPTERJapanese mist-net ban
    • ILLUSTRATIONAlthough the arctic tern breeds in high northern latitudes it migrates south during the northern winter and is a rare...
  • CHAPTERReprieve for New South Wales forests
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• CHAPTERBRANCHING OUT
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  • CHAPTERConservation competition
    • ILLUSTRATIONSome of the winning entrants surrounded by their conservation projects in the Whakatane office of DoC. BEACON PRINTIN...
  • CHAPTERPencarrow Lakes protected
  • CHAPTERCards for kakas
  • CHAPTERRotoroa Island section
  • CHAPTERPredation at Lake Clearwater
    • ILLUSTRATIONFeral cats are being found in increasing numbers near Lake Clearwater. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
  • CHAPTEREarthmovers and oystercatchers
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe female oystercatcher stays with her eggs while a grader rumbles past. BAY OF PLENTY TIMES
  • CHAPTERProject Heritage Inventory
  • CHAPTERTorlesse Wines
    • ILLUSTRATIONTorlesse Wines director David Jackson, Forest and Bird field officer Mike Harding and the new Chello label.
• CHAPTEReels
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  • ILLUSTRATIONLongfinned eel. G.A. ELDON
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe distribution of shortfinned (A. australis) and longfinned (A. dieffenbachii) eels.
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  • ILLUSTRATIONShortfinned eels. The eel below is preparing for migration. Note the darker colour and the larger blueringed eye. It ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONA very large longfinned eel weighing 15 kg caught in the Selwyn River in 1981. There have been reports of longfinned ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONGeographical breakdown of the commercial eel catch in the mid 1980s. Over 70% of the catch is shortfins. About one th...
• CHAPTERThe five stages of the eel
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• CHAPTEREels and Maori
  • ILLUSTRATIONPreparing eels for drying at Wairewa in 1948. Enormous catches could not be eaten immediately and large quantities ha...
• CHAPTERBlue penguins becoming island refugees
  • ILLUSTRATIONA blue penguin on Rangatira (South East Island) in the Chathams. There are several large colonies of blue penguins in...
  • ILLUSTRATIONBlue penguins nest in soil burrows or amongst rocks. Eggs are laid in spring and after the chicks have departed the a...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe distribution of blue penguins in New Zealand. They are also found around the southern half of Australia. FROM THE...
  • ILLUSTRATIONBlue penguins are commonly the victims of discarded plastic or waste oil. Here DoC scientist Geoff Walls with a pengu...
  • ILLUSTRATIONOne of the biggest blue penguin colonies in the country is on Motunau Island off the north Canterbury coast. CHRIS N....
  • ILLUSTRATIONBlue penguins mainly feed during the day and only come ashore after dark. This nocturnal practice was probably to avo...
• CHAPTERRoad signs for penguins?
  • ILLUSTRATIONOne of the bilingual signs on the Breaker Bay road designed by concerned locals. MARK BELLINGHAM
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• CHAPTERIn praise of North-west Nelson
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  • ILLUSTRATIONFarewell Spit stretches 25 kilometres into Golden Bay. The sand and pebbles which form the spit originate from the tu...
  • ILLUSTRATIONNorth-west Nelson and the area being considered for a national park.
  • ILLUSTRATIONMost of the world's species of giant carnivorous Powelliphanta snails occur only in north-west Nelson. Here a wide ra...
  • ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: A thick cap of resistant Tertiary limestone has given rise to the spectacular landforms of Garibaldi Ridge....
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe southern penny cress Notothlaspi australe is an alpine endemic of the wetter mountains of Nelson and Marlborough....
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Karamea is the biggest river system in north-west Nelson. With its numerous tributaries it is one of New Zealand'...
  • ILLUSTRATIONHaastia sinclairii lives among stable alpine debris heaps in north-west Nelson and is a close relative of the vegetab...
  • ILLUSTRATIONLesser knots are among the wading birds that congregate in large flocks on Fairwell Spit each summer feeding on crust...
• CHAPTERNational Park investigation underway
• CHAPTERRuataniwha protecting a natural remnant of the Mackenzie country
  • ILLUSTRATIONHall's totara forest remants flank the screes on the lower slopes of Ben Ohau. This is the largest native forest area...
  • ILLUSTRATIONHall's totara forest, with the snow-capped Barrier Range in the background. MIKE HARDING
  • ILLUSTRATIONRuataniwha station and the vegetation communities in need of preservation.
  • ILLUSTRATIONAll of the mountain in the mid-ground, from Lake Ohau to the snow-covered top of Ben Ohau, is proposed as a reserve. ...
• CHAPTERTreasury changes the rules
• CHAPTERPenguins from the past
  • ILLUSTRATIONAbove: The proto-penguin of 55 to 62 million years ago based on a partial skeleton found near Waipara. This wing-prop...
  • ILLUSTRATIONSkeleton of the fossil penguin found by Ewan Fordyce at Waihao in 1977. It is the most complete fossil penguin found ...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThis site, near Duntroon in the Waitaki valley, has been the source of several fossil finds. NEVILLE PEAT
  • ILLUSTRATIONEwan Fordyce, left, and Masters student Craig Jones chiselling out a slab of limestone rock containing fossil penguin...
• CHAPTERWABU CREEK KAURI FOREST a Fijian success story
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Wabu Creek catchment adjoins the 1,300 hectare Mount Tomanivi Nature Reserve. Much of the Wabu Creek catchment is...
  • ILLUSTRATIONFijian kauri, Agathis macrophylla, a close relative of the New Zealand kauri, is the dominant forest tree in the Wabu...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe endemic orange Fijian tree frog is one of the many native animals threatened by logging in Fiji's forests. PADDY ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONA strangler fig embraces a tarawau tree in its quest to capture a space in the canopy of the Wabu Creek forest. SEAN ...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe customary owner of Wabu Creek, Litiana, with her two sons and the tui (high chief) for the area. SEAN WEAVER
  • ILLUSTRATIONNature tourism has yet to become a major component of the tourism industry in Fiji although the potential for develop...
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• CHAPTERThe Stephens Island gecko Elusive but not extinct
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Stephens Island gecko was unknown until about 30 years ago. Like the common gecko, which is also present on Steph...
  • ILLUSTRATIONBiologists were originally concerned to find the Stephens Island gecko living in Tradescantia, a weed which has vigor...
  • ILLUSTRATIONFortunately, Stephens Island geckos are more abundant in the endemic Muehlenbeckia australis vinelands (shown here) t...
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• CHAPTERPROFILE
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  • CHAPTERStan Hemsley Taking a stand
    • ILLUSTRATIONStan Hemsley with Lyttelton Harbour in the background. EUGENIE SAGE
    • ILLUSTRATIONStan was a fervent advocate for the campaign to save Pureora forest. This ancient totara in Pureora with its famous p...
• CHAPTEROn a second smelter at Aramoana
• CHAPTERDuring the campaign for Paparoa National Park
• CHAPTERBOOK REVIEWS
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  • CHAPTERNew Zealand Wetlands: A Management Guide
  • CHAPTERNative Forests of New Zealand
  • CHAPTERWhale Watch – a Guide to New Zealand's Whales and Dolphins
  • CHAPTERKiwi: a secret life
    • ILLUSTRATIONPaul Martinson's illustration of the New Zealand eagle from New Zealand's Extinct Birds. This bird was the largest bi...
  • CHAPTERNew Zealand's Extinct Birds
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• CHAPTERBULLETIN
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  • CHAPTERNational Executive and Council meetings
  • CHAPTERLabour Weekend Camp in Tongariro forest
  • CHAPTERKakariki and tuatara – who eats whom?
  • CHAPTERNew Zealand bird tapes
    • ILLUSTRATIONLes McPherson recording some of the bird calls featured on New Zealand Bird Tapes. DON HADDEN
  • CHAPTERRarotonga
    • ILLUSTRATIONMost of Rarotonga's high-altitude cloud forest will be included in a proposed nature reserve. MARGARET PEACE
  • CHAPTERCorrections
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