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- CHAPTERComment
- CHAPTERRoyal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc. (Founded 1923)
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- CHAPTERconservation briefs
- CHAPTERWestland Wetland Acquired as a Reserve
- CHAPTERConservation orders over Rangitata, Motueka rivers
- CHAPTERThe Pestilential Power of Potamopyrgus
- CHAPTERA History of Conservation in New Zealand
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- CHAPTERWhiteheads Released in Waitakere Ranges
- CHAPTERLandcare Scientists Measure the Mouse Menace
- CHAPTERRescue Plans for New Zealand's Plant Life
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- CHAPTERThe Remote Ruahine
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Sunrise over the red tussock grasslands at Ruahine Corner, with Te Rakaunuiakura beyond, northwestern Ruahine. ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Makirikiri Tarns feature several islands which have preserved pre-Polynesian flora. Bogpine shrublands on these i...
- ILLUSTRATIONCabbage trees and podocarp forest near Lake Colenso. The only lowland-podocarp forest in the Ruahine park surrounds L...
- ILLUSTRATIONLake Colenso is named after missionary-explorer William Colenso. This small four-hectare lake is the only one in Ruah...
- ILLUSTRATIONMost of the northwestern area is within the Ruahine Forest Park. The remainder is Maori land. Local detail is availab...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: Few New Zealand trees display as much character as pahautea (New Zealand cedar), with their conical shape, vib...
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- CHAPTERPhantoms of Forest and Garden
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: the common or smooth stick insect. Clitarchus hookeri on pohutukawa. JOHN JANSEN
- ILLUSTRATIONAt right is a mated pair (the male is much smaller). They are frequently found like this, the male riding on the fema...
- ILLUSTRATIONA brown stick insect, photographed at night. While it could be a brown form of the common stick insect, experts could...
- CHAPTERMokoia Island
- ILLUSTRATIONMokoia Island in the middle of Lake Rotorua is being restored as a home for rare native birds. Already, North Island ...
- ILLUSTRATIONMokoia has long been important to Maori. The stone 'kumara god' Matua Tonga once overlooked extensive gardens on the ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThis hot pool on Mokoia Island lies on its shoreline with Lake Rotorua. In the famous story, Hinemoa recovered here a...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe ancestors Hinemoa and Tutanekai are acknowledged in this ceremonial gateway on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua, Bay...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe introduction of the North Island robin was an early success for the restoration programme. Birds have since been ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe introduction of the North Island saddleback to Mokoia Island was another success for the restoration programme. P...
- ILLUSTRATIONStitchbird (hihi) were introduced to Mokoia but had to be removed because many were dying. Scientists eventually trac...
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- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: forest on the island is recovering following the eradication of introduced pests, specifically goats, rats and...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: blackberry has been largely cleared. ASON ELSWORTH
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- CHAPTERA Life on the Shore
- ILLUSTRATIONThe book which made the study of the seashore accessible to a wider audience when published in 1968. Long out-of-prin...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe popular impression of Prof John Morton, as he often appeared on television. This picture was taken on one of his ...
- ILLUSTRATIONA typical drawing of a marine community of the kind which distinguishes John Morton’s work. He often drew such pictur...
- CHAPTERThe Conservation of Castle Hill
- ILLUSTRATIONKura Tawhiti Reserve looking out to the protected Torlesse Range and the pasture of Castle Hill station. photographs;...
- ILLUSTRATIONVirtually all the land within this photo stretching from the Mt Cheesman Ski-field access road at 1294m to the Torles...
- ILLUSTRATIONRock climbing within the Kura Tawhiti Conservation Area. John Corcoran in the photo runs training courses for under p...
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- ILLUSTRATIONCastle Hill forget-me-not, Mysotis colensoi D A NORTON © DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
- ILLUSTRATIONRanunculus crithmifolius, Castle Hill buttercup GERRY McSWEENEY
- ILLUSTRATIONScree hebe, Hebe epacridaea growing at 1289 metres beneath the Mt Cheesman Skifield, Castle Hill station. GERRY McSWE...
- ILLUSTRATIONBlack scree daisy Legtinella atrata, on scree at Castle Peak, Castle Hill station. GERRY McSWEENEY
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: All these limestone castles lay within the freehold portion of Castle Hill station but will now become conserv...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: The limestone castles in the foreground were also freehold land. They now become conservation land joined to t...
- CHAPTERFarming Joint-Ventures Make Conservation Dollars Go Further
- CHAPTERThe Troubled Waters of the Vernon Lagoon
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe Wairau Lagoons, Marlborough, from the Vernon Hills. Fed by the sea, the Wairau and Opawa Rivers and a plethora of...
- ILLUSTRATIONThese ponds, to the north of the Wairau Estuary, Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, once hosted flocks of migran...
- ILLUSTRATIONRare black stilt, a visitor.
- ILLUSTRATIONResident black swan.
- ILLUSTRATIONRoyal spoonbill breed on the lagoons. DAVE HANSFORD, ORIGIN NATURAL HISTORY MEDIA
- ILLUSTRATIONWhite heron, or kotuku, a winter visitor to the Vernon Lagoons. The birds breed in a colony in South Westland. DAVE H...
- CHAPTERThe Nature of the Wairau Wetlands
- CHAPTERA Wilderness of Urban Streams
- ILLUSTRATIONAuckland is rich in natural corridors, running along its small streams. In Le Roy's Bush, in suburban Birkenhead , a ...
- ILLUSTRATIONHenderson in Waitakere City grew up around water mills at The Falls. The Twin Streams project focusses on community r...
- ILLUSTRATIONLittle streams, less than two metres wide, are typical of the Auckland isthmus. Here, in North Shore City, the Oteha ...
- ILLUSTRATIONTidal rivers carry a burden of run-off. Deterioration of harbour quality through stormwater pollution costs the Auckl...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe Wairau Stream is channelled to prevent flooding through the Wairau valley industrial area of North Shore. Lined c...
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- CHAPTERThe Wasteful Set Net
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: A commercial set net snagged on Laison Reef near White Island in the Bay of Plenty continued to catch fish up t...
- ILLUSTRATIONParore are often caught in nets set for schnapper, but are thrown away and wasted. ROGER GRACE
- ILLUSTRATIONSet nets take species set netters don't want. Here a discarded paddle crab is eaten by a spiny sea Star. TONY & JENNY...
- ILLUSTRATIONCrayfish caught in an abandoned set net. SHANE ALDENBROOKE
- ILLUSTRATIONMarble fish get tangled in nets over kelp. TONY & JENNY ENDERBY
- ILLUSTRATIONSeahorses have no protection in New Zealand. TONY & JENNY ENDERBY
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- CHAPTERin the field
- CHAPTERThe Kinship of Plant S
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- CHAPTERThe Kinship of Plant S
- CHAPTERbranching out
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- CHAPTERbulletin
- CHAPTERSociety's Management Changes
- CHAPTERAuckland Office Has Moved
- CHAPTERAdvertising office to Auckland
- CHAPTER'Abort a Contorta'
- CHAPTERArk in the Park Job
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- CHAPTERbook notes
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- CHAPTERThe Big Year, A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession
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- CHAPTERCloud Farm, High on Banks Peninsula
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- CHAPTERFlight of the Huia
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- CHAPTERBirds of the Chatham Islands
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- CHAPTERA Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of New Zealand
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- CHAPTERAt Home in the Bush
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- CHAPTER2004 index
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