Contents

COVER : Mountains : Mountains to the sea Series
CONTENTS : WHAT’S INSIDE -- Journey from the Mountains to the Sea -- Parts of a Mountain -- Ngai Tahu Legend -- Plant challenges -- Animal Challenges -- Bug Corner : Alpine grasshoppers -- Marvellous mountain parrot : Kea - the world's only mountain parrot, endemic to the South Island -- Amazing alpine autotrophs (Plants that can make their own food) -- Match the animal to learn cool facts -- Mountains in Aotearoa New Zealand -- puzzles -- Make it : torn paper mountains -- what's climate change doing to our mountains -- Controlling introduced species harming our precious and fragile mountain eco-systems by hunting -- Play mountain bingo and do your own alpine monitoring -- mountain safety -- must-see mountains checklist -- KCCers taking action : A dotterel fortress -- Puzzle answers -- Next time.