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COVER : Menace with the face of a teddy bear, a young possum prepares to dine on pohutakawa. Metrosideros species, of which pohutakawa is one, have been hit hard by possums, who find these trees highly palatable.
CONTENTS - Features :
CHANGING TASTES : THE FOOD REVOLUTION IN NEW ZEALAND [Typical Kiwi fare used to be meat and three veg, week in and week out. We are now considerably more adventurous in our cuisine];
POSSUM : AN ECOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE [It has been more than 150 years since the first Australian common brushtail possums were liberated in New Zealand. They are now a pest of such damaging proportions that enormous efforts are required to try to contain them];
TRAVELS IN A WILDERNESS [Fiordland is one of the most unspoilt wilderness areas in the world. Visiting this land of forest, mountain and water is like stepping back a thousand years in time];
GOING UNDER [The undersea world of New Zealand’s fiords offers glimpses of deep water creatures which are rarely seen by divers];
PRINCELY PURIRI [If kauri is king of Northland’s forests, then puriri is the prince];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; GEONEWS [the new look cook]; SPACE [is anybody out there?]; PLACES [Port Craig]; WEATHER [Tropical cyclones]; COMING UP [What’s in store]; MINI ADS;