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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : THE FINAL COUNTDOWN There are some species that conservation can’t save. Is this one of them?
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- GeoNEWS Baby whales, sea ice, dementia -- VIEWFINDER July flooding -- PROFILE Mana Vautier -- LIFE Time Crystals -- BOOKS Tears of Rangi, Caves -- HISTORY Pelorus Jack -- IN THE FIELD Leonie Hayden -- ON REFLECTION Finding cairns.
CONTENTS : Features :
LAST CHANCE TO SEE The orange-fronted parakeet has already been declared extinct twice. As numbers fall below 100 individuals, conservationists worry that it won’t be third time lucky.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Protestors are struggling to prevent a subdivision being built on the site of Auckland’s oldest settlement.
ACID SEAS Coastlines acidify faster than the ocean, offering a timely glimpse into the future of our seas and ecosystems.
FATE OF THE NINO BIXIO During World War II, an Italian prisoner-of-war ship carrying Allied soldiers was torpedoed off the coast of Greece.
THE COMING SWARM Wasps stop songbirds breeding, trash invertebrate communities and loot beehives. Now scientists are fighting back.