Forest & Bird Magazines 1997

November 1997

Features
The Weeders of Raoul Island
The State We're In - State of the Environment Report
Motatau Kukupa
Waihi Bush
Conservation Management - Island Style
On the Road to a Better Environment?

Comment
Protecting Nature or Green Extremeism?

Conservation Briefs
Learning More About Hutton's Shearwater
Population talkfest Ignores Environment
From Mangroves to Motorway?
Editor Departs
Cat-Free on the Kapiti Coast
Update on Brown Teal
A Magpie in the Cage Worth Tui in the Bush?
Fishing Changes at the Poor Knights
Tourists not Timber (Vanuatu)

World Watch
Where There's Smoke (Smog in South East Asia)
Weeds Go Bush in Oz
Nature Knows (Korean Albino Sea Cucumber)
Cull of the Wild (European Wolves)
Northern Distillery (Artic PCB's)
Ganges Dolphin in Deep Water

In the Field
More on Parenting

Branching Out
Pedallers Needed (The Pedal Car Tour)
Mrs Sanderson Turns 100 (Wife of Founder V Sanderson)
Coromandel Covenant
Toxic Cover-Up (Fruit Growers Chemical Co)
Piha Penguins Protected (Little Blue Penguins)

Profile
Hard Work in Paradise (Laurence Gordon)

August 1997

Features
Leaps and bounds -New Zealand's Frogs
Protecting Sealife in the Capital - Marine Reserve for Wellington?
Too Many People
Dead Birds and Legal Loopholes
Lake Tamurenui - the restoration of a wetland

Comment
"Please Fence Me In" (stock and grazing in conservation areas)

Conservation Briefs
New wilderness area (Olivine)
Good news from dotterel census
Grass carp - the big one that could get away
Kakapo on the move
Supporters gather for Little Barrier
Kokako spread their wings
Eco-shopping: it takes more than two ticks
From the Archives: The Song of the Tui (E V Sanderson)

World Watch
War ends but environment still suffers in Zaire
Too hot for krill ? (global warming)
Slippery business in Alaska (oil strike near federal reserves)
Not just hot air (Wind Farm)
If it persists, ban it (discharge of toxics to the North Sea)
Coral reefs under seige

In the Field
Food for thought (fish jaws and feeding)

Profile
Looking after what's left (Peter Howden, mid-Canterbury farmer)

Branching Out
Weka find another home (Whanganui Island)
Sika and destroy (sika deer eradication in Wellington region)
Small but perfectly formed (Kauri Coast Section weed eradication)
A Coat of Paint at Ruapehu

May 1997

Features
In your face birds - New Zealand Robins
In the Company of Friends - Hoki's Story
Hidden Coal Plateaux of the Buller
Pulling Pines on Ruapehu
Antarctica in Transition

Comment
Conservation Beyond the Fence

Conservation Briefs
An end to native forest logging?
Keeping them out (Karori Sanctuary)
Bat Pack
Taiko - disasters and successes
QE11 notches 1000
Possums released in Fiordland
Declining amphibians
When is a rainforest not a rainforest?
More research on albatrosses and longlines

World Watch
Buffalo Bill Returns
Right of Way (Northern Right Whale)
World's forests still disappearing fast
Mahogany breakthrough
Pollution ban to save Indian treasure (Taj Mahal)
Galapagos fishing

In the Field
Tropical Relations (Nikau Palm, Kawakawa, Karaka, Puriri)

Branching Out
But Can They Fly? (Concrete Gannets Mana Island)
Kiwi found in central Auckland
Carter Holt Protest
Going sailing (Seaweek Parade)

Profile
Green Warrior Bows Out (Jacqui Barrington)

February 1997

Features
Kiwi Survival at Waikaremoana
Meeting Nick Smith - the new Minister of Conservation
Watching Forests Bounce Back to Life (pest control monitoring)
A Tale of Two Ffiords - Conservation & Research in Fiordland
Eco-Subdivisions - Living Without Cats and Dogs
Unravelling the relationship between weeds and birds
Kiwi, kakerori & field guides ( Hugh Robertson - DoC scientist )
Eco-subdivisions - living without cats and dogs

Conservation Briefs
Te Rere Revisited
New Paper for Forest & Bird
More Mohua (Yellowheads)
Tuatara Return Home (Mercury Islands)
Cabbage Tree Decline - Four Years On
Introduced mammals still spreading
Disappointment for Otago's red tussock grasslands
Awards to Forest and Bird
Project Crimson Goes Rata
Kapiti rat eradication looking good
A high country relic - Hebe cupressoides

World Watch
Great White in Danger
Star Light Star Bright (Japanese National Parks)
Vanuatu's Ffirst Conservation Park
Pipeline Scheme Threatens Okavango
Desert Action

Profile
Kiwi, Kakarori and Field Guides

In the Field
About Birds and Blokes

Branching Out
A Forest Gift (Theo Matthews, Herekino Forest)
Lodge Improvements (William Hartree Memorial Lodge)
Dam Action (Nth Canterbury, Hurunui River)
Tawa Forest Survivors
Protection at Otatara
Beech Gathering