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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : What would you do with a million hectares? A small group is decided that fate of all stewardship land on the West Coast. They've been given eight months. Will the land be saved or sold?
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Photographer Becki Moss documents people at high risk of COVID-19 -- GeoNEWS New Zealand protects less than one per cent of its marine realm -- and that realm is heating up; orca attack blue whales; a fossilised bone suggests a mystery species; earthquakes pose the most pressing geological risk to the central North Island -- PROFILE Playwright and actor Oscar Kightley on the themes defining his life -- JUST SO How animals learned to make themselves invisible - particularly to the other species trying to eat them.
REFLECTION CULTURE The work of two little-nown New Zealand photographers meets the public eye through an exhibition about nature photographer Olaf Petersen and a film about the life of social documentarian Fiona Clark -- HISTORY On protecting the haka "Ka mate" popularised by the All Blacks and appropriated by the Spice Girls.
CONTENTS : Features :
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A MILLION HECTARES? A small group of people have eight months to decide the fate of all stewardship land on the West Coast.
MAPPING THE FUTURE Sea-level rise doesn't affect all places equally, and now, the first-ever detailed map of New Zealand's coastline shows which areas may flood and which may remain above the waves.
THUNDER OF A DISTANT WAR Aotearoa couldn't be further from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but social media and global news make the war all too close for New Zealanders with roots in the region.
WHY ARE WE STILL BURNING COAL? It warms our hospitals and schools, ripens our tomatoes, makes roses bloom, turns ironsand into steel, dries milk powder for export, and generates electricity when hydro lakes are low and gas production sputters. Will this ever change?