Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE :
Freaks of Nature : How strange coloured critters can result in new species;
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; VIEWFINDER [Jocelon Janon]; GeoNEWS [Stitchbirds, hips, bottled water]; CALENDAR [Jousting]; ARTEFACT [Hi-res bugs]; GREAT WALKS [Serpentine Walk]; PROFILE [Brigid Gallagher]; WEATHER [Flooding]; LIFE [Cloning]; BOOKS [Binney, Accidental Genius]; HISTORY [George Bernard Shaw]; IN THE FIELD [Mark Scott]; TRIBUTES [Don Merton, John Morton];
CONTENTS - Features :
RESURRECTION [After being hit twice by major earthquakes, the city of Christchurch weighs up how to emerge from the rubble];
COLOUR MORPHS [New Zealand’s flora and fauna can come in many shades - sometimes vibrant abnormalities surface and change the game entirely]; THE BEACH [We meet the garrulous residents of the coastal fishing village of Ngawi : a truly uncut gem of kiwiana]; ON THE EDGE [In the wake of receding glaciers, climbers must find new routes up old peaks];
THE MICROSCOPIC WORLD OF LICHENS [The miniature forests of the often-overlooked lichen hold biological secrets and some surprising uses];