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- CHAPTERKeeping "them" honest
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- CHAPTERConservation update
- CHAPTERForest day of action
- CHAPTERProtecting Paterson Inlet
- ILLUSTRATIONThe marine reserve proposed for Paterson Inlet.
- CHAPTERCampbell Island
- CHAPTERMount Aspiring excision reversed
- CHAPTERBetter news for Stewart Island's dotterels
- CHAPTERCattle stops kill kiwi
- CHAPTERMoss harvest
- CHAPTERHovercraft halted in Rotorua
- CHAPTERworld watch
- CHAPTERLessons from Lord Howe
- CHAPTERSaving the Okavango Delta
- CHAPTERNew Arctic park
- CHAPTERInsurers react to Greenhouse changes
- CHAPTERName change for ICBP
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- CHAPTERBranching out
- CHAPTERGoodbye rats, hello bird sanctuary
- CHAPTERProject weka going strong
- CHAPTERIsland restoration in the north
- CHAPTERTorlesse Range
- CHAPTERWhat on earth?
- CHAPTERISLAND MAGIC
- ILLUSTRATIONREISCHEK'S PARAKEET is one of eight subspecies (two of which are now extinct) of the red-crowned parakeet which have ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONUNLIKELY PARTNERSHIPS can develop between immigrants: like the tuatara and fairy prions which, thrown together by the...
- ILLUSTRATIONNEW ZEALAND has its share of extraordinary invertebrates. Fiordland's bat-winged fly (Exsul singularis) is probably n...
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- ILLUSTRATION"IF YOU CHOPPED two of its legs off and saw it on a dark night you could be forgiven for thinking you were looking at...
- ILLUSTRATIONWHEN IMMIGRANTS arrive on islands they are forced to learn new tricks. This form of Pacific gecko (Hoplodactylus paci...
- ILLUSTRATIONIN THE RICHER ISLAND ecosystem of the Poor Knights Islands, Pacific geckos add to their insect diet with fruit, and n...
- ILLUSTRATIONTHE SPECTACULAR Haleakala silversword (Argyroxiphium sandwichense) is descended from a nondescript group of small her...
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- ILLUSTRATIONSOME ISLAND IMMIGRANTS evolve to become supreme predators and competitors and as such shape the nature of other anima...
- ILLUSTRATION"IT IS REMARKABLE that some of the largest and heaviest insects in the world are still being discovered in New Zealan...
- ILLUSTRATIONTIS THOUGHT the ancestor of the Hawaiian honeycreepers was a finch-like bird that arrived on the newly formed volcani...
- ILLUSTRATIONTHE WEKIU BUG (Nysius wekiucola) of Hawaii "shows how island immigrants can completely change their food source and e...
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- CHAPTERIN SEARCH OF LABOUR'S GREEN AGENDA
- ILLUSTRATIONPete Hodgson (left) and John Blincoe: marketing Labour to conservationists. CLARE CUNNINGHAM
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- CHAPTERTHE MYRIAD FASCINATIONS OF FLAT TOP HILL
- ILLUSTRATIONDoC's new acquisition at Flat Top Hill.
- ILLUSTRATIONDoC scientist Brian Patrick examining the ancient soils on the shores of Butchers Dam.
- ILLUSTRATIONCushions of ground-hugging Raoulia decorate the summit of Flat Top Hill.
- ILLUSTRATIONSmall is beautiful. A native forget-me-not, Myosotis pygmaea var. minutiflora in flower. The hairy brown leaves of th...
- ILLUSTRATIONTor shrublands with porcupine shrub, Hymenanthera alpina, high up on Flat Top Hill. ALL PHOTOS BY NEVILLE PEAT
- ILLUSTRATIONLooking into the upper reaches of Lake Roxburgh from near the top of Flat Top Hill where speargrass is at home.
- ILLUSTRATIONWith the removal of grazing pressure, shrubs such as Cassinia fulvida are expected to spread and recolonise parts of ...
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- CHAPTERWhere we came from
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: In the 1920s there were still arguments over whether the celebrated huia still survived, and official and priv...
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- ILLUSTRATIONBush clearance in about 1905. A familiar scene in pioneer New Zealand, but already attitudes were starting to change....
- ILLUSTRATIONWaiorua valley on Kapiti Island around the turn of the century showing the cleared hillsides. It was official neglect...
- ILLUSTRATIONA poster produced by the society in the 1920s. Even though the name of the organisation was not formally changed unti...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLand clearance near Upper Hutt about 1870. ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
- CHAPTERWETLANDS THE JAPANESE CONNECTION
- ILLUSTRATIONThe sacred crane of Japan, tancho, was virtually wiped out in Japan by the turn of the century. Numbers of Japanese c...
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- ILLUSTRATIONBy far the commonest crane wintering in Japan is the hooded crane. The majority of its world population migrate to Ar...
- ILLUSTRATIONJapanese cranes. Over a quarter of the world population of this crane is dependent on the wetlands in Hokkaido.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe most important of Japan's 85 internationally significant wetlands, and the Japanese arms of the East Asian/Austra...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOnce an abundant and widespread winter visitor throughout much of Japan, the population of white-fronted geese was dr...
- ILLUSTRATIONApproximately 14,000 of the east Siberian breeding population of whooper swan migrate to Japan to winter in the north...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe natural meanderings of the rivers flowing through Kushiro's peat swamp — Japan's largest — hide the high levels o...
- ILLUSTRATIONCoastal "reclamation" Japanese style.
- ILLUSTRATIONHooded and white-naped cranes wintering in Arasaki.
- ILLUSTRATIONFor all its locally perceived "shortage" of land, Japan's post-war development has been of lowrise suburban sprawl wh...
- ILLUSTRATIONFrom its wintering grounds in Australia (and very occasionally New Zealand), the Japanese snipe migrates to Japan alo...
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- CHAPTERKIWIS SEEKING KIWIS
- ILLUSTRATIONThe kiwi-spotters are briefed before departure from Oban. Phillip Smith is on the left.
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- ILLUSTRATIONUntil recently Stewart Island kiwi were considered a distinct subspecies of the brown kiwi found throughout New Zeala...
- ILLUSTRATIONA Stewart Island kiwi explores Ocean Beach in search of sandhoppers. ERWIN BRINKMANN
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- CHAPTERBook reviews
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- CHAPTERBulletin
- CHAPTERExecutive meetings
- CHAPTERLoder Cup nominations
- CHAPTERJ.S. Watson Conservation Trust
- CHAPTERWaikato Branch conservation grant
- CHAPTERBirthday parties
- CHAPTERContinuing the search for green paper
- CHAPTERCorrection
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