Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Go Shorty : Welcome to bonsai world - where wonky is wonderful, totara are tiny, and getting old is a good thing.
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Leslie Adkin was an exacting, obsessive perfectionist - but in photographing early 1900s New Zealand, he broke the rules -- GeoNEWS Please welcome 25 native rusts and a sea monster we didn't know about. Also incoming : lots more mynas; an AI robot to help in the urchin fight; new sea-temp data; and a sunny trigger for beech masts -- PROFILE The extraordinary real life of TikTok star Terressa Shandley Kollat -- JUST SO How did flight happen? And feathers?
REFLECTION CULTURE The first major book of New history since 2003, reviewed -- HISTORY For 50 years, punters had just one hour after work to get their booze on. It did not go well.
CONTENTS : Features :
WORLD BUILDING Koura, freshwater crayfish, are the great architects and cleanup crew of their homes. Could introducing them to new waterways help save the species - and our battered ecosystems?
LITTLE BEAUTIES Bonsai are living works of art - and although they're teeny-tiny, they have a way of taking over.
LANDFALL When the Alpine Fault goes, huge sections of Fiordland's steep mountains will slide into the sea. Now, researchers are figuring out what that means for tourism hotspot Milford Sound.
THE FIGHT FOR NIUE A handful of environmentalists are waging an urgent battle against hordes of pests decimating their island. Will reinforcements arrive in time?
FIXING TAIRAWHITI The beaches are smothered in dead wood. Mountains are sliding into rivers. Forests swarm with possums. But the people who belong to this land are moving home - and working to repair it.