Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Fresh Perspectives [Winning images from Photographer of the Year 2016]
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL / VIEWFINDER / ARTEFACT [Machine guns for schools] / GEONEWS [Submarine snow, reading pigeons, family diversity] / GREAT WALKS [Milford Track] / WEATHER [1938 Esk Valley flood] / PROFILE [Jamie Steer] / LIFE [Gene Drives] / VIEWPOINT [1080] / BOOKS [The Cuckoo and the Warbler, Rescue Pilot] / HISTORY [An Eiffel Tower for Dunedin] / IN THE FIELD [Kate Evans] / ON REFLECTION [Parihaka Day]
CONTENTS : Features :
BURIED TREASURE [SUBMERGED FOR AEONS IN THE PEAT BOGS OF NEW ZEALAND’S NORTH, SWAMP KAURI IS ONE OF THE WORLd’S MOST VALUABLE AND EXQUIsITE TIMBERS, AND AN UNPARALLELED RESOUrce for global climate science. What is the future of this ancient taonga?]
THE PUZZLE OF PILOT WHALES [They strand onour shores in greater numbers than any other species of whale. Scientists believe they know why, but there is much about these animals that remains an enigma, and the strandings continue to happen]
WHY WASN’T I TOLD [This year, for the first time in the 150-year sage of Parihaka, the government is preparing to apologise for one of New Zealand history’s most deplorable acts : the invasion and sacking of a Maori pacifist community and the imprisonment without trial of its leaders. Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi. Yet for many New Zealanders, the word “Parihaka” still draws a blank]
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2016 [The finest photographs of New Zealand and New Zealanders captured in the past calendar year]