Contents

COVER : Volunteer firefighters brave the flames.
CONTENTS - Features :
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS [Unpaid and unheralded, they answer 65,000 emergency calls a year, routinely saving the lives and assets of people they don’t know];
TA MOKO : LIBRARIES ON THE SKIN [Far from body art, ta moko inscribes the skin with motifs of ancestral history. The process is a deeply personal experience];
FISHING SPIDERS [Fishing spiders are one of New Zealand’s most specialised animals, equipped to hunt on the surface of rivers by sensing vibrations];
JOHN GUARD : PIONEER WHALER [From when he arrived in the South Island in the late 1820s, John Guard’s life became a significant thread in New Zealand’s economic, social and cultural cloth];
TIRITIRI : ISLAND OF BIRDS [Thirty years after the project was conceived, Tiri’s native birds are now breeding so successfully they are seeding conservation projects throughout the Hauraki Gulf];
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; SIR PETER BLAKE TRUST; VIEWFINDER [Apse, father and son]; SPACE [Aurora]; WEATHER [Rain]; GeoNEWS [Stitchbirds, kakapo, collaborative memory]; WAITAKI [Last days of salmon]; THE MIND [Left handedness]; PROFILE [Anne Barnett, ceramicist]; GREAT WALKS [Rees-Dart]; BOOKS [Hobsonville, medicine, whale warriors]; HISTORY [Bastion Point]; LONGVIEW; IN THE FIELD [Derek Grzelewski];