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  • ILLUSTRATIONCOVER Emperor penguins with chicks at Cape Crozier on Ross Island in Antarctica. The emperor is the largest of all pe...
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• TABLE_OF_CONTENTSCONTENTS
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• CHAPTERSelling our birthrights
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• CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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  • CHAPTERDolphin capture refused
    • ILLUSTRATIONA common dolphin goes through its routine at Marineland. With the capture of dolphins unlikely to be allowed again in...
  • CHAPTERKakapo comeback?
    • ILLUSTRATIONFourteen-day-old kakapo chick on Codfish Island awaiting airlift with Don Merton to Auckland Zoo. The chick was serio...
  • CHAPTERMove for saddlebacks
    • ILLUSTRATIONA saddleback is examined before being tagged and weighed during the recent transfer. STEVE BRONI
  • CHAPTERFur seals move north
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    • ILLUSTRATIONTwo of the new pups from the Cape Palliser colony enjoy the sun. ANDREW TREVALYAN
  • CHAPTERCoromandel possums
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  • CHAPTERAlarm over dwindling kereru
    • ILLUSTRATIONRay Pierce with a native pigeon nest from the Tangihua ranges. He found the broken egg on the ground near the nest. T...
  • CHAPTERReplanting a rare tussock
    • ILLUSTRATIONNick Torr examines endangered spiral tussock near the Mt Luxmore caves. SOUTHLAND TIMES
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• CHAPTERWORLDWATCH
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  • CHAPTERIvory ban to stay
    • ILLUSTRATIONIn the ten years before the 1989 ivory ban, Africa lost half its elephants due to uncontrolled poaching and an illega...
    • ILLUSTRATIONRange of the African elephant EC AFRICAN ELEPHANT SURVEY AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMME
  • CHAPTERRediscovery in South America
  • CHAPTERSiberian forests threatened
  • CHAPTERWilderness going in New Caledonia?
    • ILLUSTRATIONA mature kaori in the Ni valley. This tree has a girth of nearly nine metres. SIMON BULMAN
  • CHAPTERMitsubishi Man retires hurt
  • CHAPTERRio: tough decisions or giant jamboree?
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    • ILLUSTRATIONAn international agreement on a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases will be a major challenge for the Eart...
  • CHAPTEROzone blues
    • ILLUSTRATIONWHAT WAS THAT ABOUT A STITCH IN TIME...? MARK ROMAN
  • CHAPTERMexican headache
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• CHAPTERBRANCHING OUT
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  • CHAPTERCoromandel block protected
    • ILLUSTRATIONTrustees of the Coromandel block, the Mist Preservation Society, with DoC staff and Mark Bellingham at Moehau. MARK B...
  • CHAPTERMarine reserve proposal for Muriwai
  • CHAPTERLetters call for timber ban
    • ILLUSTRATIONMichael Inder from the Canterbury University Environment Council (standing) assists Makiko Yamamoto of Japan, Denis B...
  • CHAPTERForest and Bird in Te Anau
  • CHAPTERPingao planting in Horowhenua
    • ILLUSTRATIONSchool children from Foxton School planting pingao in the sand dunes at Waikawa Beach.
  • CHAPTERRat eradication
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe Rotoroa Island Salvation Army manager, Major Neville Stark, with two of the tubes used as bait stations against t...
  • CHAPTERQuarantine Island benefits from KCC
    • ILLUSTRATIONFrom left: Ben Knight, Ian Goodwin and James Goodwin building a stile to give access to the western end of Quarantine...
  • CHAPTERBird hide wins out
• CHAPTERAntarctica not secure yet
  • ILLUSTRATIONHuman beings have taken the first steps towards a new relationship with Antarctica, but it isn't over yet. ALAN HEMMINGS
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  • ILLUSTRATIONAntarctica in winter. Fourteen million square kilometres — the last great wilderness on the planet. ALAN HEMMINGS
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Pointe Geologie archipelago shows dramatically the impact humans can have in Antarctica. The biggest island is gi...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Antarctic Peninsula. The coasts of Antarctica are the most dangerous in the world for shipping. Although the prot...
  • ILLUSTRATIONAdelie penguins float on the cleanest seas in the world. However, they still need the commitment of the world's envir...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONCrabeater seals hauled out on a decaying iceberg. The 10-12 million crabeater seals (which feed directly on krill) ar...
  • ILLUSTRATIONWeddell seals are the most "Antarctic" of all seals, giving birth on the fast ice in the winter. They maintain access...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe passing of an Antarctic icon. Huskies have largely been replaced by mechanised transport, and concerns about the ...
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• CHAPTERParengarenga Paradise
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  • ILLUSTRATIONLooking south-west across the Parengarenga with Kokota Spit on the left. Ninety Mile Beach is in the far distance. Th...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONA school shark is released after tagging. The sharks are tagged to find out more about their life cycles and migratio...
  • ILLUSTRATIONKokota Spit on the right is Maori land and is the largest area of dunes containing entirely native plant communities ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONERIC TAYLOR/DAC COMMUNICATE NZ
  • ILLUSTRATIONSunrise, and the Parengarenga appears a place of timeless tranquillity. MARK FELDMAN
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  • ILLUSTRATIONAnother threat to the wild sanctity of the Parengarenga. Before and after... a barge which never made it over the dan...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONCaspian terns are one of the threatened species of birds that breeds each summer at the Parengarenga. Their nests are...
  • ILLUSTRATIONPingao on Kokota Spit. Te Hapua, home of the Aupouri community, is one of the major pingao weaving centres in the cou...
• CHAPTERWHAT ARE KIWIS AFRAID OF?
  • CHAPTERKIWI CAPERS
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    • ILLUSTRATIONPerhaps the best thing about the display for many children was the large snakes and ladders game in which the snakes ...
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    • ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Particularly popular was a 10-metre-long crawl-through tunnel that recreated the sights and sounds of the fores...
    • ILLUSTRATIONCentre: The exhibition got the visitors involved. Here children examine the coarse, shaggy feathers of a kiwi and its...
    • ILLUSTRATIONRight: The displays, games and drawing competitions were put together by volunteers and children from a local school ...
• CHAPTERKOKAKO RECOVERY
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe North Island kokako is the only member of the ancient New Zealand wattle bird family still surviving on the mainl...
  • ILLUSTRATIONFemale kokako with a chick in the nest in the Coromandel Range. The chick's pink wattles which develop a week after b...
  • ILLUSTRATIONHazel Speed, member of the recovery group, setting a stoat trap in Kaharoa forest. Stoats are a predator of kokako ne...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONKokako banding in Rotoehu forest. From left, Kerry Brown, John Innes and Paul Jansen. Radio transmitters are attached...
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• CHAPTERPARKS AND GRAZING
  • ILLUSTRATIONUp to 4,500 sheep graze the Eglinton Valley within Fiordland National Park. A scientific assessment of their impacts ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONSheep stray for several hundred metres into the beech forest of the Eglinton Valley in Fiordland National Park, brows...
  • ILLUSTRATIONIn Lake Sumner Forest Park sheep and cattle have a major impact on forest margins, inhibiting regeneration and, in se...
  • ILLUSTRATIONMain grazing problem areas in South Island parks
  • ILLUSTRATIONCattle cause severe damage to the banks of lakes and rivers, pugging soil, trampling plants and reducing water qualit...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONCattle browsing has reduced this metre-high broad-leaved snow tussock, in the proposed Torlesse conservation park, fo...
• CHAPTERDoC's grazing policy
• CHAPTERMavora Lakes
  • ILLUSTRATIONNorth Mavora Lake looking towards the upper Mararoa valley. Forested margins along the western side of the lake are b...
• CHAPTERWHO GOES INTO THE ARK?
  • ILLUSTRATIONAbove: The population of the Chatham Island oystercatcher is less than 90 and still falling. Cats and introduced weka...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Mokohinau skink, Cyclodina "mokohinau". This recently recognised species is found only on one small rock stack so...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Akaroa weta, Hemideina ricta, is known only from one patch of bush on the Banks Peninsula. As DoC's Canterbury co...
  • ILLUSTRATIONPercentage of the 284 SPRS threatened taxa seriously affected by predation, competition and habitat loss. The main th...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Te Paki kauri snail, Paraphanta busbyi watti, is gravely threatened as the few remaining populations are being ra...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe chickweed, Thelyphyton billardieri, was once widespread on beaches in New Zealand and Tasmania. It has virtually ...
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• CHAPTERRecycling
  • ILLUSTRATIONMIKE YULE: from GO EASY ON THE EARTH
• CHAPTERWas the kawekaweau the world's largest gecko?
  • ILLUSTRATIONA common New Zealand green gecko Naultinus elegans is dwarfed by the unique specimen of Hoplodactylus delcourti. It i...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe shape of the H. delcourti specimen and the scales on the head and feet are remarkably similar to those of the oth...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONThe colour and colour pattern of the only specimen of Hoplodactylus delcourti closely match Mair's 1873 description o...
  • ILLUSTRATION"about two feet long, and thick as a man's wrist ..."was how Gilbert Mair described a kawekaweau killed near Whakatan...
• CHAPTERBOOK REVIEWS
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  • CHAPTERA Living New Zealand Forest
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe native fly, Pales sp., sunning itself on hard beech leaves in the Orongorongo Valley. The larva of this fly is a ...
  • CHAPTERThe New Zealand Descriptive Animal Dictionary
  • CHAPTERA Field Guide to New Zealand Birds
  • CHAPTERA Field Guide to the Alpine Plants of New Zealand (third edition)
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• CHAPTERBULLETIN
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  • CHAPTERObituary: John Jerram
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  • CHAPTERHelp save the Rarotongan kakarori
    • ILLUSTRATIONTereapo from the Cook Islands Conservation Service needs volunteers for the kakarori programme. MARK BELLINGHAM
  • CHAPTERFleming Conservation Scholarships
  • CHAPTERWaikato Branch conservation grant
  • CHAPTERJ.S. Watson Conservation Trust
  • CHAPTERRon D. and E.A. Greenwood Environmental Trust
  • CHAPTERBack issues of Forest & Bird
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