Contents

COVER PHOTO : New Zealand Falcon;
COVER HEADLINE : FINAL APPROACH : Ancient Arts to save the falcon;
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; TRUST; VIEWFINDER [Peter James Quinn]; GeoNEWS [Snow,Sea lions, Ice, Rare plants, Sea Change]; ARTEFACT [Mother’s Medicine]; WEEKEND TRAMPS [South Coast Track, Southland]; GREAT DRIVES [Opotiki-East Cape SH35 to Hicks Bay]; WEATHER [Otherwise fine - Hail]; PROFILE [Te Kaitiaki - Toheroa]; THE MIND [Swearing]; BOOKS [Architecture, Climate, Birds]; LONGVIEW [Ruahine Corner]; FLASHBACK [Tobacco]; IN THE FIELD [Rob Suisted]; PARTING SHOT [Island Funeral];
CONTENTS - Features :
New Zealand Geographic - PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR [Competition rules];
GM FOOD [GM is a solution to disease resistance, but many warn that by tampering with the building blocks of life, we could unleash a storm of horrors];
RAPTORS [Once the sport of nobles, falconry is finding new favour as an effective tool for conservation, and none better than our falcon];
ROSS SEA FAUNA [Last year New Zealand scientists delved into the depths of the most remote and least understood tract of ocean on the planet];
PUYSEGER CALLING [Kennedy Warne follows a phoneline through dense rainforest to the wild west tip of the New Zealand mainland];
BILL HAMILTON [He was the archetypal bloke in a shed, a homegrown engineer who went against the flow of both the river and the convention];