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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : CAN THE VACCINES SAVE US : have the vaccines been rushed? Who will get the vaccines first? How will we get everybody vaccinated? How effective are the vaccines? Will the vaccines work against the variants? Can we achieve herd immunity in New Zealand?
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD Veronika Meduna -- VIEWFINDER The Revenant -- GeoNEWS -- DATA Whanganui River -- PROFILE Amber Aranui -- FIXABLE Te Waihora / Lake Ellesmere -- BOOKS An Exquisite Legacy, Railways Studios -- HISTORY Robert Louis Stevenson
CONTENTS : Features :
VACCINES : Polio killed at least 835 New Zealanders and paralysed many more. It was only banished by a vaccine decades in the making.
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES : Plant sex is the ultimate form of a long-distance relationship, with animals co-opted into carrying out the act.
IN SEARCH OF SUMMER : More than a century ago, people were granted temporary leases to build baches on Rangitoto Island, and a thriving community grew around these rudimentary dwellings.
THE TREE HUNTERS : Out there in forest reserves, down remote back roads and tucked away in corners of small town hide giant totara, matai and rimu.