Contents

COVER : Just resting, or ready to pounce? A praying mantis strikes a springbok pose as it waits for a meal to deliver itself within the long reach of its flick-knife-fast front legs.
CONTENTS - Features :
THE CLIFFTOP WORLD OF THE THREE KINGS [Separated from the North Island for millions of years, and protected by an inhospitable coastline and constant heavy seas, the Three Kings Islands north of Cape Reinga are home to a range of distinctive animals and plants];
SCULPTING NATURE : THE ENVIRONMENTAL ART OF MARTIN HILL [Martin Hill’s environmental sculptures echo the curves and resonances of nature and are wrought in natural materials that revert to maximum entropy after a transitory existence]; AORAKI : THE NOBLE MOUNTAIN [crowning jewel in that icy tiara that is the Southern Alps, Mt Cook has long beckoned mountaineers to try their courage and skill on its dizzying faces and bluffs];
ON THE STREETS WHERE WE LIVE [Most road names reflect a solid, respectable sense of our colonial past and local history, but just occasionally something else sneaks past - humour, eccentricity, even desperation];
ON A WING AND A PRAYER [The last mistake made by many an unwary insect is to mistake this patient but voracious predator for just another harmless leaf. Look out];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; GEONEWS [giant squids; ochre through the ages; conservation holidays]; SPACE [Land ho!]; WEATHER [dire Strait]; MUSEUMS [fashion on the farm]; OPEN COUNTRY [a boost for Buttercup]; BOOKS [news from nowhere]; SALUTE;