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- CHAPTERComment
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- CHAPTERKaitorete Spit
- CHAPTEREeling Contests
- CHAPTERSilly Mistake
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- CHAPTERconservation briefs
- CHAPTERNew Wildlife Sanctuaries in Fiordland
- CHAPTERKaikoura Island to be Protected and Restored
- CHAPTERKokako and Kiwi Restored to Mount Bruce
- CHAPTERMajor High-Country Reserve Established in Mid Canterbury
- CHAPTERNew Marine Reserve at Stewart Island
- CHAPTERMarine Reserves Proposed in North
- CHAPTERA Future for Coastal Herbfields
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- CHAPTER'BLUE ZEALAND'
- ILLUSTRATIONGrey petrel make up more than a quarter of seabirds killed in the New Zealand fishery. A circumpolar bird of the suba...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe New Zealand vessel Ocean Reward bottom trawling for orange roughy over a seamount on the New Zealand continental ...
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone extends 200 nautical miles from any of our islands, covering some 4.8 million s...
- ILLUSTRATIONBy-catch of non-target fish and crustacea, including starfish, caught during bottom trawling for orange roughy over a...
- ILLUSTRATIONNorthern giant petrel, a circumpolar species, seen here with a chick on subantarctic Antipodes Island. Like albatross...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe critically endangered Chatham Island albatross has been caught on long-lines set for tuna and ling. C.J.R. ROBERT...
- CHAPTERThe Best Fish Guide
- CHAPTERUnsustainable Fisheries
- CHAPTERSilvereyes in the Garden
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe native silvereye is a self-introduced bird which arrived in New Zealand from Australia in large numbers during 18...
- ILLUSTRATIONSilvereye pairs may raise three broods between September and February. Their delicate nest cups may be found secured ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe range of food taken by silvereyes may be part of their success. Here a youngster is fed a large katydid but birds...
- ILLUSTRATIONSilvereyes are easy to attract in the garden. Breadcrumbs aren't the best food and bird tables need to be kept clean....
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- ILLUSTRATIONNature photographer Geoff Moon captured this spectacular sequence of a silvereye in flight as it approached a bird ta...
- ILLUSTRATIONSilvereyes share the job of raising young. Both male and female brood the eggs and feed the chicks. Pairs stay togeth...
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- CHAPTERThe Pig's Back
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- CHAPTERThe Nature of Wild Pigs
- CHAPTERA New Future for Molesworth
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Serpentine wetlands in the upper Clarence valley, Molesworth. G. MCSWEENEY
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow left: Above Island Pass on the western edge of Molesworth looking into the headwaters of the Serpentine Stream....
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- ILLUSTRATIONSubalpine vegetation above Island Pass, on Molesworth. G. MCSWEENEY
- ILLUSTRATIONNative vegetation on the edge of the Clarence River, near Acheron, at the southern entry to Molesworth. G. MCSWEENEY
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- ILLUSTRATIONRight, Molesworth is popular with mountain bikers. G. MCSWEENEY
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove, wetlands need special protection from stock. Red tussocks, Serpentine wetlands. G. MCSWEENEY
- ILLUSTRATIONSpecial plants of the Molesworth high country. From top left, the penwiper plant; nationally threatened scree pea; sc...
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- ILLUSTRATIONA Bulbinella wetland (Maori onion) near the outlet of the Clarence river from Lake Tennyson. G. MCSWEENEY
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Upper Clarence River marks the boundary between Molesworth, at right, and the St James station, left. G. MCSWEENEY
- CHAPTERConservation Priorities
- CHAPTERA Turnaround for Tuatara
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe tuatara research team at Victoria University, Dr Nicky Nelson (left), and Sue Keall, with resident tuatara Oliver...
- ILLUSTRATIONScientists working on the rescue of tutatara poulations have discovered a new species of tuatara on tiny North Brothe...
- ILLUSTRATIONA new Little Barrier baby. KATHY OMBLER
- ILLUSTRATIONTuatara coming out of burrow THEO STEPHENS © DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION TE PAPA ATAWHAI
- ILLUSTRATIONEnclosures for rearing captive tuatara on Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf. The view looks across Te Maraero...
- CHAPTERFemales to order
- CHAPTERThe Legacy of Big South Cape Island
- ILLUSTRATIONProbably the only colour photograph ever taken of Stead’s bush wren, a bird rendered extinct when rats invaded Big So...
- ILLUSTRATIONLanding through the surf on Potuma, one of the muttonbird islands off Southwest Cape, Stewart Island, in 1961. The bu...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe rat 'irruption' was so massive that not only birds suffered. Invertebrates and vegetation were devastated. This w...
- ILLUSTRATIONDon Merton on Big South Cape Island as a young wildlife officer in 1961. With others, he pondered why native birdlife...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe last Stewart Island snipe population was found on Big South Cape Island. Two birds were rescued but died before t...
- ILLUSTRATIONBy the 1960's the South Island saddleback was found only on Big South Cape Island and two tiny adjacent islands—Solom...
- ILLUSTRATIONRescued birds were held in this makeshift aviary in the muttonbirders' camp at Puai, on Big South Cape Island. This w...
- CHAPTERExtinct Giant Cro of New Zealand WS
- ILLUSTRATIONClose-up of the northern raven's bill. From Newton, 1893-6, A Dictionary of Birds.
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: Paul Martinson's artistic impression of a New Zealand raven in a coastal setting. From Gill and Martinson, ...
- ILLUSTRATIONA drawing of the northern raven. From Yarrell, 1843, A History of British Birds.
- ILLUSTRATIONDistribution of raven bones in sites younger than about 6500 years old.
- CHAPTERSmall Wonders
- CHAPTERin the field
- CHAPTERCook with a Carefre e Conscience
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- CHAPTERCook with a Carefre e Conscience
- CHAPTERbranching out
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- CHAPTERbook notes
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- CHAPTERThe Natural History of Southern New Zealand
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- CHAPTERIcons Nga Taonga from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa
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