Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Down Under [The gruelling search for New Zealand’s deepest cave]
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWFINDER [Stars, spiders, submarine trees]; GeoNEWS [Gullibility, nickel, butts, willows]; TE ARAROA [Pirongia traverse]; ARTEFACT [Crime & Punishment]; WEATHER [A filthy war]; LIFE [Bioelectricity]; PROFILE [Christine Winterbourn]; BOOKS [Shelter from the Storm / Secrets and Treasures]; HISTORY [Falcon of the dawn]; IN THE FIELD [Neil Silverwood]; PARTING SHOT [Trick or treaty];
CONTENTS - Features :
WHAT LIES BENEATH [Battling flooding, cold and exhaustion, cavers are on the brink of discovering the country’s deepest system]
LESSONS FROM LITTLE CREATURES [The size of a grain of rice, ants nonetheless maintain colonies of millions working together for the common good]
PILGRIM AT OAKLEY CREEK [Urban green spaces are a shrinking amenity in New Zealand, and have more to offer us than ever]
PHANTOM MENACE [Biosecurity staff are engaged in a battle of wits with New Zealand’s public enemy number one, an ephemeral butterfly]