Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : The Takahe Experiment [A daring new conservation approach for one of our most endangered birds]
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWFINDER [Tongariro / butterflies / balloons]; PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2012 [Open for entries]; GeoNEWS [Un-happy feet, seedy visitors, lost words]; ARTEFACT [Pelorus Jack]; TE ARAROA [Breast Hill track]; WEATHER [Storm warning]; PROFILE [Professor Charles Alcock]; LIFE [Biomimicry]; HISTORY [USS Halibut]; BOOKS [Jewish Lives in New Zealand / Beyond the Scene / Our Place]; IN THE FIELD [Paul Hersey];
CONTENTS - Features :
COASTING [Raglan’s industry, culture and inhabitants have been defined by the waves that peel along its coast]
GREAT EXPERIMENTATIONS [Saved from extinction by intensive conservation, hope for the takahe now depends on rangers leaving them alone]
TIME FOR TEA [New Zealanders were once the thirstiest tea drinkers in the world. Now, the dairy capital of Hamilton grows more than just grass]
TO HAAST, THE HARD WAY [Four climbers attempted a daring month-long, 200-km traverse of the Souther Alps. It wasn’t easy]
GREAT SOUTH ROAD [New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year 2011 Brett Phibbs travelled south in search of ice, birds and pixels]