Forest & Bird Magazines 1996

November 1996

Features
North Island Kokako: The Cutting Edge
What's Wrong with our Fisheries - Short Sight, High Risk
Caves or Concrete - The saga of Alpha Creek
Biological Control - Is It Environmentally Safe?
Forest Remnants and Urban Cconsolidation

Comment
Putting Conservation on the Front Bench

Conservation Briefs
Kakapo Recovery Plan Renewed
Hitting the Rroad
Mice Menace Antipodes Fauna
Forest and Bird goes on-line
Cheltenham Beach Rahui Extended
South Island Kokako - From the Impossible to the Probable?
TV as a Conservation Tool

World Watch
China Syndrome (population, resource consumption)
Success in the Seychelles
Alien Travels
Protecting the Artic
Paper Income (Solomon Islands, small-scale cottage industry)

Profile
Phil Thomson - Wildlife enthusiast, family man, inventor

In the Field
Big is Beautiful (worms, invertebrates, weta)

Branching Out
Green Group Teams up with Forest & Bird
Battle over Tasman Plan
Reserve Work Earns Award for Wairarapa Members

August 1996

Features
Soft, Furry and a Danger to Native Forests - White-spotted Tussock Moth
Mohua and Tackling Stoats
What Happened to the Kauri National Park?
Waikato Magpie Wars
The Yellowstone Experience

Comment
The strange case of Colin Boyd (native vegetation clearance)

Conservation Briefs
Kapiti Rat Blitz
Gambling Money Goes to Conservation
Call for Improved Environmental Reporting
Rare Matagouri Find
False Claim from Coal Corp
Golf balls main threat to weka - on Pakatoa
Poor season for taiko
Renewable Energy in the Wairarapa
Goldman Award for Ballantine
Finger Points to Deer
Boaties and island sanctuaries
Kaituna River Victory
Update on New Zealand dotterels
Counting Dotterels

World Watch
Who'd be a bird at Fukuoka?
Damning Report on Australia's Environment
American import threatens Spanish wetlands
Standing up for a Native Rodent
Missing Cranes Return
Mining Company Pays UP in PNG

In the Field
Why Tall Poppies Don't Grow on Maintain Tops (Alpine Vegetation)

Profile
Winch's Way: Defending Nature in Northland (Linda Winch)

Branching Out
Stopping the Native Firewood Clearout
Restoring Limestone Island
Learning About Wellington's Seashore Life
Stamp of Approval
Forest and Bird Teams Up With Gang
Conservation in the South Waikato

May 1996

Features
Controlling the Purse Strings (DOC funding, Treasury)
Forgotten Grasslands - North Island
Waitutu - The Ultimate Forest Protected at Last
Should Felix Take The Rap?
Whirinaki Revisited

Conservation Briefs
Forest and Bird Wins Fight for River ( Rangitaiki )
New High Country Reserve in Otago ( Earnscleugh Station )
Penguin numbers tumbling
Breakthrough on Garden Weeds
Successful First Year for Resource Management Service
Antartic Impacts
Success Continues for Mainland Kokako Management
Protection for regenerating forest in Gisborne
It's all in the timing - phenology of native trees
Direct Action on Kaituna River
Kahurangi - a feast of nature in our newest national park

World Watch
Seal Slaughter in Newfoundland
Grand Canyon Flood Goes Ahead
Saving Hawaii's critically endangered puaiohi
Penguins and environmental change
Koala Cull?

In the Field
Whitebait Enigma

Profile
YOung and Green

Branching Out
Tomahawk Lagoons (Otago Peninsula)
From Vegies to Native Plants
Marine Reserve Proposal Launched (Nelson's Boulder Bank)
Energy Futures (Arethusa Lodge)
A New Reserve for Forest & Bird (Atawhai - Whenua)
A further Waiheke Reserve (Kauakarau Bay)
Ashburton Gulls

February 1996

Features
In Search of Mudfish
Rat-free Islands
Kiore: Management or eradication?
Leave it to us (International Children's Conference)
Cook Islands Under Siege
Dune Care

Comment
Restoring the Icons (National Parks)

Conservation Briefs
New Tusked Weta
Forest and Bird Takes on King Country Loggers
Colour Blue for Water
Restoring Christchurch's Ecological Past
Death at Christmas
Greening the Foresters
Junk Mail , No Thanks
Taranaki Trees
A belt in the pelt
Welcome the new native?
Is There Life After KCC?
Platt's Place (Graeme Platt)

World Watch
Going Going (Extinct Plants & Animals)
Rabbit Virus Worries (Calicivirus)
Clayoquot Sounding (Canada)
Traditional Medicines Threaten Seahorses

In the Field
Snail Shells - An Evolutionary Saga

Profile
Luring the Wild (John Kendrick)

Branching Out
Possums Galore
Wild Dunedin
Pest Free Subdivisions (Manaia Forst Sanctuary)
Call For Set Net Action
Visiting Mapara
Tasman Plantings