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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : THE MAKING OF A GREAT WALK : The Paparoa Track will be our first new Great Walk in 25 years, and a memorial to the 29 men killed at the Pike River Mine. We joined the crew blazing the trail.
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- VIEWFINDER Flying observatory -- GeoNEWS Colour x-rays, flying spiders -- PROFILE Robert Webster -- LIFE Evolutionary baggage -- BOOKS Sport and the New Zealanders, To the Mountains -- HISTORY Bill Sutch -- IN THE FIELD Crispin and Irene Middleton-- ON REFLECTION What’s in a name?
CONTENTS : Features :
GREENER PASTURES : Migrant labour has become essential to dairy farms, vineyards and kiwifruit orchards. As a result, the culture of communities is changing.
DEEP SPACE : By night, a menagerie of species rises to the surface of the ocean - rarely glimpsed, and in some cases never photographed.
THE REPTILE SMUGGLERS : Demand from collectors leads to exotic species being illegally brought into New Zealand - as well as the poaching of endangered lizards.