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Islands, Wellington, New Zealand, 2002

New Zealand is one of the world's richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life. Today more than a third of the country's land, including offshore islands, is protected as parks and reserves.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hotspots: New Zealand," October 2002, National Geographic magazine)

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