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‘Te Kupenga is a superb introduction to the Alexander Turnbull Library and an open invitation to engage more directly with its rich and evolving collections’ — Vaughan Yarwood

Life in the Shallows from the formal emails betweenHow wetlands work, what lives there, and what we can do to protect them Rich and diverse but often unloved, Aotearoas wetlands are the most vulnerable of our ecosystems. Only a tiny fraction of their original extent remains, and we continue to lose this vital habitat. The race is on to discover more about them while we still can. This highly illustrated and absorbing book introduces and explores the wetlands of Aotearoa through the work and