Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : SPECIAL FEATURE : POPULATION [New Zealand is more ethnically diverse, tolerant and unequal than ever. 87% of us now live in cities, the regions are declining, and almost nothing is as it seems]
CONTENTS - Departments : EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWFINDER [Caves]; ARTEFACT [Gold Panama frog]; GEONEWS [Shining cuckoo, bee genes, milking it, cloud computing]; TE ARAROA [North Shore coastal track]; WEATHER [shipboard life]; EXPLORERS [Lisa Matisoo-Smith]; LIFE [Abiogenesis]; BOOKS [New Zealand seaweeds, A New Zealand Book of Beasts]; HISTORY [Buller’s Birds of New Zealand]; IN THE FIELD [John Doogan]; PARTING SHOT [Oral history];
CONTENTS - Features :
SHOOTING STARS [For stargazers, the clear skies over Tekapo afford a remarkable view of the heavens]
SPECIAL FEATURE : POPULATION [Slowly, almost imperceptibly, New Zealand society is changing before our eyes. Our cities are thriving, the regions are declining, and almost nothing is as it seems]
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS [Hatched in rivers, mayflies rise to the surface and unfurl new wings, the final phase of their precarious and astonishing lifestyle]
A SOVEREIGN ACT [We were taught that Maori in 1840 willingly exchanged their sovereignty for the benefits of becoming British subjects. What if we were taught wrong?]