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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : WASTE NOT : Why recycling can’t fix New Zealand’s looming waste crisis* [*Every year New Zealand households send more than a tonne of waste to landfills, and much of our recycling goes to China.]
CONTENTS - Departments : EDITORIAL / LETTERS / VIEWFINDER [Tributaries of New Zealand] / GEONEWS [Bats, leaves, tomatoes] / CYCLE TRAILS [Around the mountains / ARTEFACT [One family’s trash] / WEATHER [Twin storms] / LIFE [E.coli] / PROFILE [Privahini Bradoo] / BOOKS [New Zealand Mountaineering, Biohistory] / HISTORY [Te Kooti’s visions] / IN THE FIELD [Craig McKenzie] / PARTING SHOT [Sun come up, my shark come up]
CONTENTS - Features :
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT [In our rush through modern life, we leave behind a mountain of rubbish that gets a little higher every year. The problem starts in our homes - so does the solution]
A DELICATE BALANCE [Deep in the Mackenzie Basin, the world’s rarest wading bird roams free in the wild, unaware that behind the scenes, a handful of people are trying to solve the problem : how to protect a species that refuses to be contained?]
P FOR PAUA [A humble New Zealand shellfish with an out-sized foot and a reputation as an aphrodisiac powers a local economy, a $50-million-dollar export industry and an active black market]
THE SEARCH FOR A BETTER BEE [Unaffected by Varroa, tolerant of cold and able to pollinate in enclosed spaces, bumblebees offer new hope for New Zealand’s primary industries. If only we knew how to build a nest they wanted to live in ...]