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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : In Search of the Grey Ghost [Searchers remain convinced that the South Island kokako is still at large in New Zealand’s forests. Will they find it?]
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL / LETTERS / VIEWFINDER [Christchurch Rebuild] / GEONEWS [Paleo possums, better bread, heart of glass] / CURRENCY [The bird on our $100 note] / GREAT WALKS [Routeburn track] / ARTEFACT [West Coast treasure maps] / WEATHER [1816] / PROFILE [Siobham Leachman] / LIFE [Theories] / VIEWPOINT [Rotten Fish] / VIEWPOINT [A climate of apathy] / BOOKS [Please demolish, Being Chinese] / HISTORY [A riot in Eden] / IN THE FIELD [Tim Cuff] / ON REFLECTION [The Kermadec conundrum].
CONTENTS : Features :
IN PURSUIT OF THE GREY GHOST [The South Island kokako is widely believed to have died out a half century ago, but some committed bird experts are convinced there are signs a few remain, disturbed moss, glimpses of grey wings and orange wattles, an occasional haunting call.]
HUNT FOR WILDER PLACES [New Zealand’s 11 wilderness areas offer adventures, solitude and a glimpse of the world as it was. But what does the future hold for what one tramper termed our “hunting grounds for the imagination”?]
THE HUMPBACK HIGHWAY [The migration path of Oceania’s humpback whales, and their final destination in Antarctica, has remained shrouded in mystery. This year, a team of scientists travelled north to intercept and track the whales travelling north.]
EDEN IN AUCKLAND [One of the rarest ecologies in the world is hiding in plain sight, in the centre of the most central suburb in the largest city in New Zealand. Of more than 5000 hectares of rock forest that once shrouded the Auckland isthmus, 29 hectares survive.]