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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Acclimatisation Societies of NZ : Hunting Utopia : Celebrating 150 years of Imports [41 birds, 54 mammals and 18 fish species successfully established]
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWFINDER [Dunes / bikes / 2000 Santas]; ARTEFACT [Wartime wedding dress]; GeoNEWS [Violins, restoring wetlands, tracking albatrosses]; TE ARAROA [Kerikeri tracks]; WEATHER [Wildfire]; PROFILE [Sam Johnson]; LIFE [Bioluminescence]; BOOKS [Black, Penguin]; HISTORY [Well-travelled rifle]; IN THE FIELD [Gareth Cooke]; PARTING SHOT [Land for sale];
CONTENTS - Features :
THE FLOOD [Just as residents of Tasman Bay began to look forward to Christmas, the heavens opened to deliver the biggest deluge ever recorded]
TRAVELLING LIGHT [The SolarFern team demonstrated that it is possible to travel the length of the country using little more than sunlight and brainpower]
REGATTA DAY [The founding of Auckland is marked by an historic regatta when the city of commerce truly lives up to its moniker, the City of Sails]
A CLIMATE OF CHANGE [The first settlers roamed into New Zealand’s hinterland and found nothing worth a shot. They figured on changing that]
SPERM WHALES [Docile giants of the seas, sperm whales possess the largest brain of any living creature. But what are they thinking?]