Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Edited by Colin Miskelly

This much-anticipated revised and expanded edition describes the Chatham Islands with emphasis on their geology, flora, fauna, habitats, and extinct and endangered species - on land, in freshwater and in the sea.  It also provides an introduction to the human history of the islands, and is a guide to the many reserves and covenants that have been established to protect and conserve the islands’
heritage.

Contributors:

• Te Miria Kate Wills-Johnson (heritage)
• Michael King (history)
• Hamish Campbell (geology)
• David Schiel (marine life, seaweeds)
• Wendy Nelson (seaweeds)
• Rhys Richards (marine mammals)
• Ian Atkinson (land habitats)
• Peter Johnson (freshwater wetlands, lichens)
• Nadine Bott (freshwater fish)
• Peter de Lange (botany, mosses, liverworts)
• Peter Heenan and John Sawyer (botany)
• Allan Fife (mosses)
• David Glenny (liverworts)
• Peter Johnston and Ross Beever (fungi)
• John Dugdale and Rowan Emberson (insects)
• Phil Sirvid (spiders)
• Karin Mahlfeld (land snails)
• Allan Munn and Ken Hunt (managing the resource)
• Colin Miskelly (birds, lizard, managing the
• resource, people who made a difference)

COLIN MISKELLY works for the Department of Conservation in Wellington. He first visited the Chatham Islands as a volunteer with Taiko Expeditions in 1978, then undertook thesis research on snipe on Rangatira between 1983 and 1986. He has been involved with conservation work on the Chatham Islands since 1998, visiting several times a year. He was co-author of Endemic plants of the Chatham Islands and Birds of the Chatham Islands, and has published many technical articles on the ecology and conservation of Chatham Island birds.

ISBN 978-1-877257- 78-0  $39.95, Paperback, 248 x 185 mm, 224 pp. 
Available from early Dec 2008 from bookstores, Hotel Chathams, Department of Conservation Chatham Islands or by mail order from Canterbury University Press. Download order form here.