Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE :
Salvation : Science provides hope for New Zealand’s Maui - the world’s rarest marine dolphin;
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; PHOTO COMPETITION; VIEWFINDER [Kingstone / Dyer / Janon]; ARTEFACT [Rush of Blood to the Head]; GeoNEWS [New fish, Grubs, Ecolocation]; GREAT WALKS [Tawharanui Regional Park]; WEATHER [The Rainmakers]; PROFILE [Steve Sawyer]; LIFE [Zoonosis]; BOOKS [The Trout Diaries, Making Sheep Country]; HISTORY [UFOs]; IN THE FIELD [Neil Fitzgerald]; PARTING SHOT [Dead Last];
CONTENTS - Features :
DEEP TROUBLE [Decimated by gill-nets, science illuminates a single clear path forward for Maui’s dolphin, New Zealand’s only endemic cetacean];
SOUNDS OF THE SEA [Residents of the Marlborough Sounds rely on the body of water that connects them as mainlanders depend on roads];
GUMLANDS [The heathlands left in the wake of the loggers and gumdiggers of the north host a swath of unique species];
TO HELL (AND BACK) [Mawson surveyed more fo Antarctica than Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen combined, and survived conditions that killed two of his party];
OUR GAME [In snow and mud of the south, on sun-parched plains in the north, on provincial fields, back lawns and beaches, rugby is an institution];