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- CHAPTERcomment
- CHAPTERThe high costs of pests & weeds
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- CHAPTERThe high costs of pests & weeds
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- CHAPTERAuckland's Parks
- ILLUSTRATIONROSS GRANT
- CHAPTERLandscape Frames
- CHAPTERWho's Responsible?
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- CHAPTERAuckland's Parks
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- CHAPTERconservation briefs
- CHAPTERAncient sea creatures at risk in Spirits Bay
- CHAPTERMarine Reserve for East Coast
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- ILLUSTRATIONTE TAPUWAE O RONGOKAKO MARINE RESEVE
- CHAPTERCovenant on East Cape forests
- CHAPTER200 native plants at risk
- CHAPTERNew guidelines for environmental education
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- CHAPTERNative plants for northern gardens
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- CHAPTERSaving city wastes and making money
- CHAPTERMore help for threatened species
- CHAPTERForetastes of forest futures
- CHAPTERMaking best use of rat poison
- CHAPTERMangaweka boulders protected
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- CHAPTERLizards in the Garden
- ILLUSTRATIONGreen Gecko TONY WHITAKER
- ILLUSTRATIONCommon Gecko The geckos on these two pages may occur in New Zealand gardens. Geckos are baggy-skinned lizards. The sm...
- ILLUSTRATIONPacific Gecko TONY WHITAKER
- ILLUSTRATIONTONY WHITAKER The suburban rock-garden (at right) has many features of benefit to geckos and day-active skinks. Lots ...
- ILLUSTRATIONCommon Skink TONY WHITAKER
- ILLUSTRATIONCopper Skink
- ILLUSTRATIONOrnate Skink
- ILLUSTRATIONRainbow Skink Smooth-skinned lizards are known as skinks. Here is a range from New Zealand gardens.
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- CHAPTERAfter the Fire
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe rugged coast of Forest and Bird's Te Rere penguin reserve in the extreme southeast of the South Island. The shelt...
- ILLUSTRATIONFire devastated the Te Rere Penguin Reserve in February 1995. More than two-thirds of the 100 adult penguins at Te Re...
- ILLUSTRATIONYellow-eyed penguin, also known as hoiho, with chick. Individuals live to more than 20 years, consistently raising an...
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- CHAPTERSummer Holiday Victims
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- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand dotterel GEOFF MOON
- ILLUSTRATIONVariable oystercatcher Summertime holidaymakers disturb nesting birds and their young. At left, a nesting colony of w...
- ILLUSTRATIONForest and Bird signs at Buffalo Beach near Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula warn off people from a dotterel nes...
- ILLUSTRATIONCaspian terns and chicks GEOFF MOON
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- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand dotterel chicks and egg Shore-nesting birds most at risk at Christmas are the New Zealand dotterel (above...
- ILLUSTRATIONFairy tern and nest. officially classified as a threatened species, and the 'critically endangered' fairy tern (at ri...
- CHAPTERForests 'To Go'
- ILLUSTRATIONMature beech trees, like these are to be felled and helicoptered from the West Coast forests under Timberlands' manag...
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- ILLUSTRATIONFor every tree logged and taken to the sawmill, another two trees are felled and left to rot on the forest floor. Thi...
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- ILLUSTRATIONFar left: During Conservation Week, activists highlighted Timberlands' 'trial logging' in the Maruia valley beech for...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Forests damaged by past logging in the Nile Valley of Charleston Forest. Bleached spars in the middle foregroun...
- ILLUSTRATIONOnly a narrow strip of forest around South Westland's Okarito Lagoon is protected from logging. Timberlands is experi...
- ILLUSTRATIONExtensive new roading is proposed as part of the 'beech scheme' and is already part of 'sustainable' rimu logging. Ne...
- ILLUSTRATIONThis site was cleared in Charleston Forest during logging for rimu. This felling is part of what is called 'the Bulle...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe aftermath of heavy rimu logging in the Awakiri Valley, near Paparoa National Park. Every saleable rimu tree has b...
- ILLUSTRATION'Eco-tourism' offers an economic alternative to native forest logging, according to conservationists, who point to th...
- CHAPTERBack from the Brink
- ILLUSTRATIONThe habitat of the Rarotongan flycatcher, the kakerort, which occupies only four valleys in the Takitumu Conservation...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe kakerori changes colour as it matures. For their first two years of life they are bright orange. In their third y...
- ILLUSTRATIONHugh Robertson (left) of the Department of Conservation in Wellington spends 10 percent of his time giving scientific...
- ILLUSTRATIONRAROTONGA
- ILLUSTRATIONThe mature kakerori has a dark-grey back and paler-grey underparts, in contrast with its juvenile forms. GERALD MCCOR...
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- CHAPTERinsects at Risk
- ILLUSTRATIONTuatara eat other native species. If their numbers increase too greatly on an island sanctuary, they can upset the na...
- ILLUSTRATIONDEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Extreme closeup of a Little Barrier giant weta, or wetapunga threatened with extinction.
- ILLUSTRATIONWhen visiting the North Brother Island in Cook Strait during 1959, the author saw very few tuatara, while the Cook St...
- ILLUSTRATIONWhen populations of native predators get out of balance with their prey, other native species may become threatened. ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThis giant weta, or wetapunga, once occurred on the mainland of Northland but is now restricted to Little Barrier Isl...
- ILLUSTRATIONAn extinct giant weevil believed common in New Zealand's rimu forests prior to the introduction of the kiore or Pacif...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe author of this article, George Gibbs believes the native saddleback and the introduced kiore, or Pacific rat, are...
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- CHAPTERAn Eradication of Rats
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- ILLUSTRATIONROB SUISED Kapiti Island, off the Wellington west coast, is the first large island to be rid of rats using techniques...
- ILLUSTRATIONRats are a major predator of native birds and other animals. Their raids on nests, eggs and chicks have been blamed f...
- ILLUSTRATIONBreaksea Island off the Fiordland coast was the site of the first successful attempt to get rid of introduced rats fr...
- ILLUSTRATIONBrodifacoum baits for rats. Use of the poison is discussed in Conservation Briefs, page 12. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
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- CHAPTERin the field
- CHAPTERFascinating Fungi
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- CHAPTERFascinating Fungi
- CHAPTERbranching out
- CHAPTERbulletin
- CHAPTERbook reviews
- CHAPTERKapiti
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- CHAPTERThe Nature Guide to New Zealand Native Orchids
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- CHAPTERThe Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand
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- CHAPTERAn Illustrated Guide to Some New Zealand Insect Families
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- CHAPTERSecrets and Lies
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- CHAPTERKapiti
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