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- CHAPTERcomment
- CHAPTERRestoring the icons
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- CHAPTERRestoring the icons
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- CHAPTERShooting kukupa
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- CHAPTERWilderness and noise
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- CHAPTERStranded whales
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- CHAPTERShooting kukupa
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- CHAPTERCONSERVATION briefs
- CHAPTERNew tusked weta
- CHAPTERForest and Bird takes on King Country loggers
- CHAPTERColour blue for water
- CHAPTERRestoring Christchurch's ecological past
- CHAPTERDeath at Christmas
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- CHAPTERGreening the foresters
- CHAPTERJunk mail, no thanks
- CHAPTERTaranaki trees
- CHAPTERA belt in the pelt
- CHAPTERWelcome the new native?
- CHAPTERIs there life after KCC?
- CHAPTERPlatt's place
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- CHAPTERWORLD watch
- CHAPTERGoing, going...
- CHAPTERTraditional medicines threaten seahorses
- CHAPTERRabbit virus worries
- CHAPTERClayoquot soundings
- CHAPTERFrom Auckland to Gunung Leuser
- CHAPTERBRANCHING out
- CHAPTERPossums galore
- CHAPTERWild Dunedin
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- CHAPTERPest-free subdivisions
- CHAPTERCall for set net action
- CHAPTERVisiting Mapara
- CHAPTERTasman plantings
- CHAPTERIn search of Mudfish
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- ILLUSTRATIONA Canterbury mudfish resting on a creek bed near Temuka. Belying their name, mudfish prefer clean, unpolluted, well o...
- ILLUSTRATIONAn "elongate, tubular fish, like a short stocky eel" as fisheries scientist Bob McDowall puts it, the brown mudfish i...
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- ILLUSTRATIONTony Eldon points to a brown mudfish found beneath a log at Kumara on the West Coast in 1966 and (inset) the same fis...
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- ILLUSTRATIONCanterbury mudfish can be easily distinguished from other mudfish by the presence of a reduced pelvic fin (half way a...
- CHAPTERThe other mudfish
- CHAPTERProtecting a special native animal
- CHAPTERRAT-FREE ISLANDS
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- ILLUSTRATIONA Norway rat taking bait from a bait station on 170-hectare Breaksea Island off Fiordland in 1988. Baits were laid ou...
- ILLUSTRATIONRangatira or South-East Island in the Chatham group is one of the few New Zealand islands of any size naturally free ...
- ILLUSTRATIONIan McFadden began work testing baits on rats on Rurima Rocks in the Bay of Plenty in 1982. Only about five hectares,...
- ILLUSTRATIONStanley Island in the Mercury group was the scene in 1991 of one of the first aerial drops of rat baits. The island c...
- ILLUSTRATIONLittle Barrier Island is a jewel of the conservation estate, containing the largest area of undisturbed lowland fores...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe inadvertent introduction of ship rats onto the previously rodent-free Big South Cape Island (in the foreground) o...
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- CHAPTERKiore: management or eradication?
- CHAPTERKapiti: thinking big
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- CHAPTERLeave it to us
- ILLUSTRATIONDelegates plus adult friend. David Bellamy told the conference: "Most conferences have a groundswell effect. We're on...
- ILLUSTRATIONChristy Flaws from Dunedin: "I was given a lot of inspiration and ideas from people at the conference. I was amazed a...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe seven New Zealand delegates address the conference about French nuclear testing. "People in New Zealand are very ...
- ILLUSTRATIONConference organiser Debbie Simmons (left): "The world is turning into a tip. We want action, not words. Through UNEP...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOne evening was set aside for workshops organised and run by the children. It was fascinating to see environmental em...
- ILLUSTRATIONIt was decided to change the usual name of resolutions to challenges. Scores of challenges were suggested during the ...
- CHAPTERPARADISE LOST
- CHAPTERCook Islands under siege
- ILLUSTRATIONNeinei (Fitchia speciosa) flower. The spectacular treesized sunflower of Rarotonga is endemic to the island and has s...
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- ILLUSTRATIONJACQUI BARRINGTON
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealander Gerald McCormack has been living in the Cooks for 14 years. A former director of the Conservation Servi...
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- ILLUSTRATIONHeavily promoted as a divers' paradise, Aitutaki lagoon is in big trouble with over 90 percent of its corals dead or ...
- ILLUSTRATIONTe Atakura, at 653 metres, is the highest point on Rarotonga. About two thirds of the island is mountainous and still...
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- ILLUSTRATIONInvasive weeds are a major threat to the Cooks' environment. Balloon vine – a local version of old man's beard – has ...
- CHAPTERCook Islands under siege
- CHAPTERPacific "R and R"
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- CHAPTERKakerori – back from the brink
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- CHAPTERDune Care
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- ILLUSTRATIONOn steep sandbank escarpments, access tracks to the beach often cause severe erosion and cutback of the dune face. ER...
- ILLUSTRATIONWaihi Beach residents planting the local foredune area as part of the Bay of Plenty Coast Care programme. The foredun...
- ILLUSTRATIONChildren from Mount Maunganui Primary School using a newly constructed sand ladder accessway. Sand ladders make acces...
- ILLUSTRATIONA spinifex-covered foredune acts as a buffer zone during storm periods, then as a sand catching/dune building area du...
- ILLUSTRATIONHeavy human use has resulted in the loss of the vegetated foredunes at the main beach at Mt Maunganui. During strong ...
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- CHAPTERLiving in the sand
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- CHAPTERprofile
- CHAPTERLuring the wild
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- CHAPTERLuring the wild
- CHAPTERIn the field
- CHAPTERSnail shells an evolutionary saga
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- ILLUSTRATIONA few of New Zealand's many native snails and slugs (not to scale). Sea slugs or nudibranchs ("naked gills") flaunt b...
- ILLUSTRATIONReconstructions of two of the ancient amphigastropods before the evolution of the spiralled shell. While the soft par...
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- ILLUSTRATIONA garden snail, showing the twisted gut it shares with all modern gastropods and the position of the anus closer to t...
- CHAPTERSnail shells an evolutionary saga
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- CHAPTERbook reviews
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