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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : We protect less than 1% of our seas. Why are marine reserves such a thorny problem?
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Virginia Woolf documents our melting glaciers -- GeoNEWS An antidote to death cap poison, how sharks keep cosy, states of emergency, caulerpa, beasties in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And kittens! -- PROFILE Taxonomist Roberta D'Archino is finding and cataloguing our marine flora, one dive at a time -- JUST SO Evolution is an arms race writ large - nature red in tooth and claw.
REFLECTION CULTURE New Zealand's first women photographers, and our changing climate -- HISTORY Almost two centuries after its discovery, an enigmatic bell is bringing communities together.
CONTENTS : Features :
SUMMER 33 Two people have been counting albatrosses on remote islands in the subantarctic for more than three decades. Their research shows that at least one species is en route to extinction. A few changes to the way we fish could save it.
IMMACULATE You might spot them on their hands and knees,grid-searching their section for weeds. Spending their Saturday carving perfect stripes - or even diamonds - into their 'outdoor carpet'. Most of all, you will know them by their works. Meet the lawn addicts.
TAKING ON WATER New Zealand once led the world in marine protection. Now our underwater ecosystems are bottoming out. Why is stopping fishing so politically fraught.
WIND HUNTERS Vol-biv, or "fly-camping", is a sport of contrasts. First comes the earthly grind : you have to lug your pack - and your wing - up a mountain. Then, when you're high enough and the air feels good, you step into empty space. You fly.