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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : THE BIRD BAN Auckland is about to ban six species of parrot. The Parrot Society has mounted a $190,000 defence. Things are getting wild in bird land.
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Mark Barber documents the construction of Auckland's City Rail Link -- GeoNEWS Galaxies seen through the James Webb telescope; scientists learn (again) that cats are unpredictable; the dangers of conversations with friends; how penguins evolved their penguinhood; stingrays make music of unknown purpose with their spiracles -- PROFILE Conceptual artist Dane Mitchell wants to show us what we're missing -- JUST SO The sex and violence - and surprising gender equality - of birdsong.
REFLECTION CULTURE When Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in Aotearoa, he believed he'd washed up in paradise -- HISTORY Crash! The story of how the stock market went down in flames in 1987.
CONTENTS : Features :
THE BIG BIRD BAN Six parrot species are set to be banned in the Auckland region due to the dangers they pose to native wildlife. Is this fair?
KILLER ALGAE On Aotea/Great Barrier Island, people are sacrificing their way of life in an attempt to contain the newly-arrived invasive seaweed Caulerpa brachypus - and stop it reaching the mainland.
THE BACK OF BEYOND Life in the Baton Valley is isolated and self-sufficient. Now, for better or worse, a new cycle trail promises to open it up.
INSIDE THE LAND MARCH In 1975 Dame Whina Cooper led a 1000-kilometre hikoi from the Far North to Wellington. The protestors were called Te Ropu o te Matakite : the seers, the ones with foresight.