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- CHAPTERcomment
- CHAPTERManaging Our Native Lands
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- CHAPTER'Cleaning Up' Mapua
- CHAPTEROld Bird Books
- CHAPTERNatural Planting
- CHAPTERMangere Island
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- CHAPTERconservation briefs
- CHAPTER'20-Year Vision' to Restore North Island Kokako
- CHAPTERFreeze-dried Rat for Stoats
- CHAPTERReturn of the Rat Trap
- CHAPTERConservation Recognised in Queen's Honours
- ILLUSTRATIONGordon Ell ONZM
- ILLUSTRATIONRichard Drake MNZM
- ILLUSTRATIONKeith Chapple QSO
- CHAPTERNew Nominee to NZCA
- CHAPTERNational Executive for 2000-01
- CHAPTER'A Kindness Toward the Land'
- CHAPTERSchoolchildren Promote Kiwi Road Signs
- CHAPTERShort-tailed Bats Found in Tararua Ranges
- CHAPTERWellington Plans New Park
- CHAPTERPainting Life in the Southern Beech Forest
- CHAPTERNicky Hager Wins 'Old Blue'
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- CHAPTERThe Complex of Mega Mania
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe main entrance into Mega Mania was originally discovered from the air. After its discovery cavers explored 15 kilo...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe dense West Coast bush surrounding Mega Mania held the cave location secret until 1994. Isolation and dense rainfo...
- ILLUSTRATIONDepartment of Conservation staff recently flew into Mega Mania and spent five days photomonitoring and marking out 's...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Sunshine enters down one of many shafts which connect Mega Mania with the surface. It is these vertical entran...
- ILLUSTRATIONMid left: The skeleton of an unidentified bird lies partially hidden in mud and stones on the cave floor. On a recent...
- ILLUSTRATIONAt left: The foot of a large moa rests on the floor in one of the numerous bird bone deposits. Mega Mania contains so...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Mega Mania contains some bizarre formations. These anthildites are the only example ever found in a limestone ...
- ILLUSTRATIONMega Mania is a complex of passages, which extends over 15 kilometres. It is now the fourth-largest cave system in Ne...
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- CHAPTERThe Waning of Weka
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- ILLUSTRATIONRowing weka to release site on Whanganui Island, Coromandel Harbour — farm manager Kim Ward and Lynette Ward.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe late Gary Staples and Elaine Staples received this pen-and-ink drawing of weka to mark their 10 years work for th...
- ILLUSTRATIONDr Tony Beauchamp is an expert on weka and a stalwart of the weka project. He generously gives scientific advice and ...
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- CHAPTERKauri Replanting on the Coromandel
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- ILLUSTRATIONKauri seedling MARIOS GAVALAS
- ILLUSTRATIONMature kauris are characterised by an open and spreading crown. They can attain heights of up to 18 metres to the fir...
- ILLUSTRATIONCliff Heraud, who spearheads the Kauri 2000 project planted this two-year-old tree. Every June the project hopes to o...
- CHAPTERLife in a Southern Beech Forest
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- ILLUSTRATIONRonald Cometti
- CHAPTERWhat Cook Saw
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- ILLUSTRATIONEvening falls on Tolaga Bay, East Cape, visited by Lieutenant James Cook and the Endeavour crew in 1769. Cook walked ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONRangaunu Bay on the Karekare Peninsula, visited by the French explorer Surville aboard the St Jean Baptiste in 1769-7...
- ILLUSTRATIONShip Cove in Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough, with its memorial to visits by expeditions under James Cook. Here, o...
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- CHAPTERMasses of Mosses
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- ILLUSTRATIONSphagnum J.E. BRAGGINS
- ILLUSTRATIONRock moss J.E. BRAGGINS
- ILLUSTRATIONDawsonia superba
- ILLUSTRATIONThe pretty umbrella mosses include the stiff, dark, handsome Hypopterigium species and the hairy Hypnodendron umbrell...
- ILLUSTRATIONHanging in soft light tendrils from trees is Weymouthia mollis. Umbrella moss
- ILLUSTRATIONThe wine-red leaved Tayloria species are found on possum droppings or goat bones. Their sticky yellow spores may be s...
- ILLUSTRATIONThere are more great moss pictures in Bill and Nancy Malcolm's book The Forest Carpet (Craig Potton Publishing). Tayl...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: Some mosses can survive temperatures of more than 50° Celsius, growing on thermal soils. Craters of the Moon, ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Leptostomum macrocarpum moss grows on a nikau trunk. R.E. BEEVER
- ILLUSTRATIONJ.E. BRAGGINS
- CHAPTERNew Hopes for Marine Reserves
- ILLUSTRATIONTONY & JENNY ENDERBY
- ILLUSTRATIONUnderwater and topside at Goat Island Marine Reserve, near Leigh on the Rodney Coast, beyond Warkworth. At top, schna...
- ILLUSTRATIONTONY & JENNY ENDERBY
- ILLUSTRATIONAt top, mosaic moray, and above a colourful nudibranch, or sea slug, photographed at the Poor Knights Marine Reserve,...
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- ILLUSTRATIONLong Bay Marine Reserve protects the tidal zone and coastal area of a popular regional reserve on the northern fringe...
- ILLUSTRATIONExisiting Marine Reserves (Source: Report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 2000.)
- ILLUSTRATIONFiordland has two tiny marine reserves in a region famed for its underwater life, including black corals (they're whi...
- CHAPTERin the field
- CHAPTERGoing Easy on The Earth
- ILLUSTRATIONFix and re-use — don't throw it away! Every year New Zealanders like us throw away: 45 kilograms of plastic 160 cans ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe dual fuel (solar and wind) clothes drier. It's free to run and the ultra-violet rays kill bacteria! Adapted from ...
- ILLUSTRATIONSave energy and save electricity. Hydro-electricity needs dams. Dams change rivers, flood valleys and bar migrating f...
- ILLUSTRATIONWalk or bike! Cars are hard on the environment. Save your car for long journeys.
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- CHAPTERGoing Easy on The Earth
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- CHAPTERbranching out
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- CHAPTERNew Executive Members
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- CHAPTERbook reviews
- CHAPTERField Guide to New Zealand Seabirds
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- CHAPTERLife-size Guide to Insects and other Land Invertebrates of New Zealand
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- CHAPTERCommon Ferns and Fern Allies, Common Seashells of New Zealand
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- CHAPTERClean and Green? The New Zealand Environment
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- CHAPTERNew Zealand's Subantarctic Islands
- CHAPTERThe Totorore Voyage
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- CHAPTERField Guide to New Zealand Seabirds
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