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  • ILLUSTRATIONCOVER Podocarp and broadleaved forest at Mangamuka in Northland. Intact lowland forest is now relatively rare in New ...
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• CHAPTER70 years... 70,000 members
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• TABLE_OF_CONTENTSContents
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• CHAPTERConservation update
  • CHAPTERUnder-reporting continues
    • ILLUSTRATIONA West Coast fur seal pup with an insecure future. SEAN WEAVER
  • CHAPTEROpen Bay Island leech
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe Open Bay Island leech: its known range confined to one square metre. COLIN MISKELLY
  • CHAPTERKiwi decline
    • ILLUSTRATIONResults from the 1991-92 kiwi survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
  • CHAPTERWhy shoot the shoveler?
    • ILLUSTRATIONShovelers are dependent on shallow wetlands. Their bills are disproportionately large and spade-like, and edged with ...
  • CHAPTERCFCs: containment and recovery
    • ILLUSTRATIONCapital Power's Dennis Hansen attempts to retrieve CFCs from refrigeration units at Wellington City Council's Happy V...
  • CHAPTERLife of a can
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe Inmetals crushing plant at Penrose, Auckland.
  • CHAPTERMobile stoats
  • CHAPTERShore plover back on mainland
    • ILLUSTRATIONJuvenile shore plover at Mt Bruce. Adult birds are black around the face with an orange-red bill. GARRY NORMAN
  • CHAPTERCuriosity killed the... weka
• CHAPTERworld watch
  • CHAPTERFiji forests saved
    • ILLUSTRATIONPart of the Vunivia catchment. These forests of about 5,000 ha are the last area of lowland dry-zone forest in Fiji. ...
  • CHAPTERAeroplanes and greenhouse
  • CHAPTERHakata Bay – a threatened Japanese wetland
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    • ILLUSTRATIONAerial photo of Hakata Bay: the dashed line shows the size of the proposed island. Inset: Saunder's gull, now reduced...
  • CHAPTERNew species of owl
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• CHAPTERBranching out
  • CHAPTERA better life for Oamaru penguins
    • ILLUSTRATIONOamaru penguins killed by dogs in July last year. LORRAINE ADAMS
    • ILLUSTRATIONPenguin habitat restoration on the Oamaru foreshore. The quarry being restored as a reserve is in the background. Fen...
  • CHAPTERTip no waste!
    • ILLUSTRATIONAnn Graeme and students leave their mark on Tauranga footpaths. BAY OF PLENTY TIMES
  • CHAPTERTrees at Cape Kidnappers
    • ILLUSTRATIONRecently retired branch chairperson Ruth Dinnan during the planting out. Cape Kidnappers is in the background.
• CHAPTERWho will save the dotteres?
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe remote flock site at the western end of Cooks Arm lies in the shadow of Gog and Magog, among the spectacular gran...
  • ILLUSTRATIONJOHN DOWDING
  • ILLUSTRATIONA lone New Zealand dotterel on Mt Rakeahua with the distinctive reddish underparts of breeding plumage. When Dowding'...
  • ILLUSTRATIONStewart Island's remaining dotterels gather in three flocks. One flock actually winters on the South Island at Awarua...
• CHAPTERNZ DOTTERELS
  • CHAPTERDisturbing dotterels — problems in the North Island
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe nests of the northern dotterel populations are often no more than a depression in the sand lined with bits of gra...
  • CHAPTERMinding the dotterels
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe success of protection areas for shore breeders can be seen in this table showing the numbers of New Zealand dotte...
    • ILLUSTRATIONAerial photos of Whangamata, 1944 (top) and 1983, document the dramatic changes and habitat loss that are associated ...
    • ILLUSTRATIONVictims of coastal development. This dotterel sticks gamely to its nest during the building of a container terminal a...
    • ILLUSTRATIONDistribution of northern New Zealand dotterels and locations mentioned. Interestingly, it is only in the last two bre...
    • ILLUSTRATION"Red-Yellow-White", a large chick caught on Table Hill in December 1988, about to be released after banding. It spent...
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe New Zealand dotterels in some remote parts of Stewart Island are often very confiding – this bird on the ridge we...
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    • ILLUSTRATIONUnlike nests in the North Island, which are usually simple scrapes in the sand, New Zealand dotterel nests on Stewart...
    • ILLUSTRATIONTable Hill (foreground) is the last stronghold of the species on Stewart Island, with eight or nine pairs attempting ...
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• CHAPTERThe trials of fieldwork
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• CHAPTERENVIRONMENTAL CHOICE
  • CHAPTERTHE GREEN DILEMMA
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    • ILLUSTRATIONA dumped car battery. Before these products can carry an Environmental Choice logo they will need to contain at least...
  • CHAPTERIs paper better than plastic?
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    • ILLUSTRATIONEnvironmental "friendliness" is a relative concept only. All manufactured goods create an impact on the environment. ...
  • CHAPTERHow it works
• CHAPTERTO SAVE A FOREST HERITAGE
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• CHAPTERNga Whenua Rahui
• CHAPTERFOREST HERITAGE
  • CHAPTERProtecting the bush
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    • ILLUSTRATIONNeville Hyde and fund chairperson Di Lucas survey the 92-hectare Ngaroma block purchased by the fund. Where land such...
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    • ILLUSTRATIONDepartment of Conservation staff Carl Chaplin (left) and Chris Bennett put in a fence round the Awakiki Bush Scenic R...
    • ILLUSTRATIONAlmost 900 hectares of mixed podocarp hardwood forest at Takaputahi, East Cape, were purchased by the fund late last ...
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe fund purchased 53 hectares of salt marsh sandspit and bush at Te Matuku Bay, Waiheke Island. The mixed kauri, tan...
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• CHAPTERQueen Elizabeth II National Trust
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• CHAPTERLINKING THE MOUN CONSERVING NEW ZEALAND'S RIVERS TAINS TO THE SEA
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe mosaic of a modified landscape: the plain of the Waiau River, north Canterbury. The large aquifers that exist und...
  • ILLUSTRATIONA free-flowing river in a natural catchment: the Travers River in Nelson Lakes National Park. Native riverside vegeta...
  • ILLUSTRATIONP. MORRISON/DOC
  • ILLUSTRATIONNational and conservation parks, and major rivers. Rivers that have Water Conservation Orders are named. Very few low...
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe slow release of water from freshwater wetlands helps to even out flow throughout the catchment, filter sediments ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONBlue ducks, or whio, are river specialists and are one of the few birds in the world that have evolved to live in dif...
• CHAPTERUnderworld living
  • ILLUSTRATIONMost aquifer invertebrates are blind, unpigmented and have a lot of well-developed sensory hairs. This 17-mm isopod c...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONStonefly larva: a widespread invertebrate in New Zealand rivers and an important component of the diet of native fish...
• CHAPTERCharter for New Zealand’s rivers – a plan of action
• CHAPTERRiverside vegetation
• CHAPTERRIVER CONSERVATION
  • CHAPTERNATIVE FISH
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe grayling was described by W. J. Philipps as “certainly the most beautiful” of New Zealand fishes and was widely d...
    • ILLUSTRATIONBanded kokopu, the smallest of the whitebait species. Adults lay their eggs on vegetation in fresh water and when the...
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• CHAPTEREnvironmental law made easy...almost.
  • ILLUSTRATIONDON POLLY
• CHAPTERProfile
  • CHAPTERLIFE IN THE FIELD
    • ILLUSTRATIONSEAN WEAVER
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    • ILLUSTRATION"You could work 80 hours a week and still not get the job done." EUGENIE SAGE
• CHAPTERBook reviews
  • CHAPTERBeyond the Limits
  • CHAPTERAn Illustrated Guide to Fungi on Wood in New Zealand
    • ILLUSTRATIONArmillaria limonea is a common white to lemon-yellow toadstool. Along with other Armullaria fungi it is an important ...
  • CHAPTERRights of Nature, a history of environmental ethics
  • CHAPTERSierra Club: 100 years of protecting nature
• CHAPTERBulletin
  • CHAPTERLearning about native plants
  • CHAPTERWaderbirds
    • ILLUSTRATIONLocal children launch the Waderbirds project under Melbourne’s Westgate bridge earlier this year.
  • CHAPTERDoubtful Sound by boat
  • CHAPTERSeaweek 92
  • CHAPTERMore on summer camps
  • CHAPTERNational kea and kaka databases
  • CHAPTER70th anniversary
  • CHAPTERCorrection
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• CHAPTER1992 Index
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• CHAPTERForest and Bird directory
• CHAPTERLodges and houses
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