Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : THE THING ABOUT CATS : Our affection for cats runs deep, but it's a love without limits.
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Summer holidays -- GeoNEWS -- DATA Secret lives of cats -- PROFILE Meri Leask -- FIXABLE How to fix the Raukumara -- BOOKS Homesteads, The Forgotten Wars, With the Wind Behind Us -- HISTORY The Penguin.
CONTENTS : Features :
OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH CATS : Should we introduce stronger rules for out most beloved companion animal.
AFTERBURN : With hotter, drier summers forecast, fire looks set to change the nature of Aotearoa. Is there anything we can do about it?
A TALE OF TWO SHIPWRECKS : Were the wildly different fates of these two crews down to luck - or leadership?
THE GREENING OF THE RED ZONE : During the two Canterbury earthquakes of September 2010 and February 2011, much of the land along the Otakaroa/ Avon River sunk by a metre. These suburbs have since been clearede, leaving potential for a park beyond compare.
THE WEED EATERS : Foragers find food in the edges and gaps of our cities : in berms, parks, verges, empty sections, hedgerows ...