Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Back from the Brink : New Hope for rowi, New Zealand’s rarest kiwi.
CONTENTS - Departments : EDITORIAL / VIEWFINDER [Bullock Creek] / ARTEFACT [Caravan] / GEONEWS [Gravitational waves, bed bugs, moa, penguins] / TE ARAROA [Rakiura Track] / WEATHER [Cyclones in the desert] / PROFILE [Gareth Morgan] / LIFE [Death] / BOOKS [Marcus King, plants] / HISTORY [Closer Economic Relations] / IN THE FIELD [Grant Maslowski] / PARTING SHOT [Wedding the sea]
CONTENTS - Features :
RAREST OF THE RARE [Rowi are the rarest of the rare - a species of kiwi so critically restricted in distribution and breeding success that they were almost done for. But a last-ditch effort has dramatically changed the fortunes of the most imperilled kiwi in the world]
THICK & THIN [New Zealand’s economy was built on ‘the back of a sheep’, but in recent decades, the twin strands of the fine- and coarse-wool industries have taken diverging paths, focusing on the economic challenge of adding value in New Zealand. Will wool rebound?]
MASSACRE AT FEATHERSTON [In February 1943, an astonishing series of circumstances aligned to set the scene for the most tragic wartime event on New Zealand soil in the 20th century. What really happened at 1PW Featherston is gradually coming to light.]
WHAT’S KILLING THE SEA-LIONS? [New Zealand sea-lion numbers have plummeted. Is it fishing pressure, climate change, the mysterious disappearance of octopuses, or a deadly new virus?]