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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : This baby eel is a migration machine - We just need to get out of its way
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER A new book showcases the dust and drama of mountain biking in New Zealand -- GeoNEWS We welcome 12 new native spiders, map seagrass with fungal spores, spy on cats in parks, and capture the beautiful chaos of galactic plasma -- PROFILE Lately, Karlo Mila's poems have been fuelled buy an "evidence-based anger" -- JUST SO Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Find a nice juicy critter - and turn it into a zombie.
REFLECTION CULTURE Books that celebrate the sacred art of Tokelauan tattooing, peek behind the curtain of New Zealand's COVID response - and let you 3D-print your own fossil -- HISTORY A happy midwinter's day to all who celebrate - especially in Antarctica.
CONTENTS : Features :
FOR THE VOYAGERS For millions of years, eels moved freely across the waterways of Aotearoa. Now we block our rivers and run turbines that copy their elders to pieces. Many migrating eels perish, or spend their lives trapped in dead ends. But mana whenua are taking a stand.
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Three decades after our first visit, New Zealand Geographic returns to Tokelau. The remote atolls have Starlink now, and Messenger, and they're 100 percent solar powered. But their coral is cooking. Can Faka Tokelau, the Tokelau Way, survive another thousand years?
THE WORST JOB IN THE WORLD Building the Manapouri dam was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. A new book tells the everyday, extraordinary stories of the workers.
OUR TOXIC RELATIONSHIP WITH WILLOWS Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we're realising, has always been a fool's game.