Pacific Ecologist 7 & 8 - Autumn/Winter 2004

Indigenous peoples threatened for resources

West Papua : Forgotten Pacific Nation - threatened with genocide - JOHN RUMBIAK and ABIGAIL ABRASH WALTON

Protecting Paradise Forests - DOROTHY TEKWIE

Cry for Acheh - ZAHARA HAMZA

Poverty and Millennium goals

Economic Justice - a new deal for Indigenous Australians - MARCIA LANGTON

Is poverty the problem, or wealth? - AISAKE CASIMIRA

Flotilla of hope to Nauru - by RUTH BOYDELL and ZOHL DÉ ISHTAR

Climate Change

Facing up to Climate Change on Pacific Islands - JOHN HAY, NOBUO MIMURA, JOHN CAMPBELL, SOLOMONE FIFITA, KANAYATHU KOSHY, ROGER F. MACLEAN, TAITO NAKALEVU, PATRICK NUNN and NEIL DE WET

Pacific blueprints for survival

Sustaining Culture and Biodiversity with Local and Indigenous Knowledge -R. R. THAMAN

Joining Forces to Conserve the Marine Environment - R.E. JOHANNES

Aotearoa - Foreshore and Seabed issue

I Gave You My Bucket and Spade - Now You Want the Whole Sandpit - ANGELINE GREENSILL

Constitutional Crisis over Foreshore and Seabed in Aotearoa - RICHARD BOAST

Media and Democracy

"Taimi 'o Tonga " and the Future of the Rule of Law in Tonga -LOPETI SENITULI

Sword of Damocles in the Pacific - DAVID ROBIE

Nuclear threats

Stories of Earth Shaking - ALEX KELLY

NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES - POISONED LIVES, CONTAMINATED LANDS - ZOHL DÉ ISHTAR

Book Reviews/Summaries

An Honourable Accord - The Covenant between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States By Howard P. Willens and Deanne Siemer; reviewed by Nancy J. Pollock

Money Makes you Crazy - Custom and Change in the Solomon Islands By Ross McDonald

Akono'Anga Maori - Cook Islands Culture Editors, Ron Crocombe and Marjorie Tua'inekore Crocombe

Black Lives, Government Lies by Rosalind Kidd

Conflict and Compromise - Essays on the Maori Since Colonisation, edited by Sir Hugh Kawharu Tuwharetoa

A History of the Maori people of the Taupo District by John Te H. Grace

Ask that Mountain - The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott

Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific by Jeannette Marie Mageo; reviewed by Teresia Teaiwa