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- CHAPTERThe costs of tourism
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- CHAPTERConservation update
- CHAPTERBlack stilt even more endangered
- CHAPTERNew marine reserves
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- CHAPTERNew giant weta
- ILLUSTRATIONThe new, as yet unnamed, giant weta.
- CHAPTERMarron saga ends
- CHAPTERMore rats on the way out...
- CHAPTERDances with MAF
- CHAPTERRarer than the kakapo
- CHAPTERA walk on the wet side
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- CHAPTERWorld Watch
- CHAPTEROf seals and fish
- CHAPTERConserving biodiversity
- CHAPTERMore people
- CHAPTERWhaling to resume?
- CHAPTERDemolition of a dam
- ILLUSTRATIONADRIAN RAESIDE/BBC WILDLIFE
- CHAPTERReport from Rio
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- ILLUSTRATIONDiana Shand. EUGENIE SAGE
- CHAPTERBlanching out
- CHAPTERClucky bantam saves weka chicks
- CHAPTERNew branch at Franklin
- CHAPTERNative vegetation in Marlborough
- CHAPTERNelson bush protected
- CHAPTERKiwi habitat in east Taranaki saved
- CHAPTERArethusa Reserve
- CHAPTERTest case in Far North
- CHAPTERWekas for Karangahake
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- CHAPTERAre We Fishing to the Last Bite?
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- ILLUSTRATIONWARREN FARRELLY A school of trevally, a major inshore commercial species in the Bay of Plenty and around Northland. h...
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone is one of the world's largest yet accounts for only half a percent of the world...
- ILLUSTRATIONJohn Dory is a northern inshore species but is a by-catch rather than a target fish. This means it is caught incident...
- ILLUSTRATIONOrange roughy at 1,000 metres on the floor of the Ritchie Bank off Hawke Bay. With a water pressure many times that n...
- ILLUSTRATIONDecline in the Chatham Rise orange roughy population since fishing started in the late 1970s based on model (solid li...
- ILLUSTRATIONRock lobster are caught in baited pots and have been a major fishery for over 30 years. The lobsters start breeding w...
- ILLUSTRATIONSnapper are long lived fish — up to 60 years — and are found throughout inshore waters of northern New Zealand. They ...
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- CHAPTERPEKAPEK
- ILLUSTRATIONROD MORRI Lesser shot-tailed male bat at his lek hole in a totara on Codfish Island. With a sound audible to some hum...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe long-tailed bat. Both this and the lesser short-tailed bat are about the size of a sparrow. The long-tailed bat i...
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- ILLUSTRATIONBecause they spend a lot of time on the ground, lesser short-tailed bats are particularly vulnerable, like New Zealan...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe lesser short-tailed bat spends more time on the ground than any other bat in the world. Its strong hind legs have...
- ILLUSTRATIONA lesser short-tailed bat eating a weta inside a petrel burrow on Codfish Island. ROD MORRIS
- CHAPTERStrange relationships 1
- CHAPTERBats and bat flies
- ILLUSTRATIONThe wingless bat-fly on the back of a lesser short-tailed bat. ROD MORRIS
- ILLUSTRATIONMike Daniel examines a lesser short-tailed bat caught in a mist net on Codfish Island. ROD MORRIS
- ILLUSTRATIONRecords of confirmed bat sightings in New Zealand 1980-92. From DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION DRAFT RECOVERY PLAN
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- CHAPTERBats and bat flies
- CHAPTERStrange relationships 2
- CHAPTERPaterson Inlet
- ILLUSTRATIONLooking across Paterson Inlet to Pryse Peak.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe wide mudflats of Freshwater River at the head of the inlet are nursery areas for many fish species and important ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLooking west across the maze of twisted arms and coves of the inlet. The mudflats of Freshwater are in the background...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe blue cod is an underwater entertainer known to steal pencils from marine surveyors. It is also the main target fo...
- ILLUSTRATIONIt is the wide range of marine habitats plus the undisturbed catchments which provide Paterson's Inlet with such a we...
- ILLUSTRATIONCerianthus anemone growing on red seaweed beds of Lenormandia. ROGER GRACE
- ILLUSTRATIONNeothyris lenticularis brachiopod in Paterson Inlet. Unlike bivalves such as molluscs, brachiopods have a pair of ten...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLooking towards The Neck across Paterson Inlet. Ulva Island, possible focus for a marine reserve and current site of ...
- CHAPTERTrading in RAINFORESTS
- ILLUSTRATIONROD HAY Rainforest on Upolu, Western Samoa. Tropical rainforests are the most complex living structures on the earth....
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- ILLUSTRATIONTROPICAL TIMBER The destuction of tropical rainforest since 1940. Almost half of the world's tropical rainforest has ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe orang-utan, literally "person of the forest", inhabits the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. It is dependent on ...
- ILLUSTRATIONA member of the nutmeg family from the rainforests of Samoa. The rich gene pool of tropical forests has many other pr...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe source of New Zealand's imports of tropical rainforest timber in 1991.
- ILLUSTRATIONSeats made from balau in Wellington's Frank Kitts Park. NZTIA President Bruce Nimmo wrongly claimed in 1990 that the ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLogging not only causes direct damage to tropical rainforests, it opens them up to agricultural development and fire....
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- CHAPTERBASKING SHARKS NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST FISH
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- ILLUSTRATIONMICHAEL GLOVER/BRUCE COLEMAN LTD A basking shark feeding in water cloudy with plankton. As the shark swims — at about...
- ILLUSTRATIONBasking sharks occur in many oceans, but primarily in the cooler temperate waters of the North Atlantic, and the Nort...
- ILLUSTRATIONBasking sharks are caught as by-catch by large trawlers fishing off the New Zealand coast. This shark was caught in a...
- ILLUSTRATIONA basking shark surfaces near a diver. There are over 300 species of shark ranging in size from the 18-metre whale sh...
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- ILLUSTRATIONA seven-metre basking shark wrapped up and washed up on North Beach, Christchurch in 1990. Basking sharks are regular...
- CHAPTERKicking the TEA TREE FIREWOOD habit
- ILLUSTRATIONManuka firewood stacked for sale E. K. CAMERON
- ILLUSTRATIONManuka flowers often cover the tree in profuse sprays. Kanuka flowers also appear in great numbers but are about half...
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- ILLUSTRATIONKanuka is an important "nurse" tree in sheltering slower-growing forest species. E. K. CAMERON
- CHAPTERMore on Sheep and Forests
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- CHAPTERBook reviews
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- CHAPTERBulletin
- CHAPTERAGM and Council meeting
- CHAPTERNew policies
- CHAPTERSubscription rates
- CHAPTERMembership privacy
- CHAPTERSummer camps
- CHAPTERNorth Canterbury branch scholarships
- CHAPTERCorrection
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- CHAPTERForest and Bird diedory
- CHAPTERLodges and houses
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