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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : A love story : He spent his life collecting butterflies. Now it's time to let go.
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Tatsiana Chypsanava photographs a Ngati Kuia stoneworking wanaga -- GeoNEWS Actually, though - how fast would you have to flap to lift off? Clutter warps the human perception of time; volunteers are in it for the chats; flowering plants through the ages; a remarkable moth resurrects itself -- PROFILE The DIY career of palaeobotanist Jennifer Bannister -- JUST SO Why did so many humans end up right-handed? And how's a lefty snail supposed to find a mate?
REFLECTION CULTURE The origins of a dangerous industry on Everest; a portrait photographer takes stock -- HISTORY We've tried keeping bears in zoos. Historically, it didn't work out well - for us or the bears.
CONTENTS : Features :
HOUSE OF CARDS In Lake Wanaka the Australasian crested grebe reigns supreme from a flotilla of hotly contested nesting platforms. But the man who started it all worries the project could be doing more harm than good.
"EVANS IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED" A new book, TERRA NOVA, reveals a story of betrayal and bitterness at the South Pole.
OFF THE WALL For a long time it was a good place to be an endangered skink - a vertical sheet of rock in Fiordland, too snowy and steep for mice to bother with. But now it's a race to evacuate.
FLY, FLY John McArthur has spent his life collecting 20,000 butterflies. Now, he's donating them to the Natural History Museum. But how do you say goodbye to a life's work?