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ISSUE 192

Mar - Apr 2025

Kingfish

Huia

Tree Ferns

Community gardens

Harlequin Geckos

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Society

The garden of life

Nine years ago the people of Tāneatua saw that their tamariki were hungry, and bored. The people had no idea how to garden. They made a garden anyway.

History

A bird in the hand

Huia were last seen alive in 1907, according to official records. But the New Zealand bird artist Raymond Ching tells another story. A Wellington taxidermist killed a trio of the birds in 1912, Ching believes—and surreptitiously stuffed them.

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