J Swap, a company involved in quarrying, wants land protected under QEII covenants to be available to quarry. It donated $11,000 to NZ First in December, after the coalition was formed. It also gave ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

Kina numbers are exploding on some of our reefs, decimating seaweed habitats. Could this problem be solved by eating them? Kate Evans investigates the potential of kina-nomics.

Hundreds of snapper are floating in the sea off Auckland, and are washing up dead or dying on beaches off the Hauraki Gulf. Fisheries New Zealand is warning the public not to eat the fish “for safety ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them?

A Selwyn district resident says thousands of stranded eels are covering his property and the local councils have done nothing to stop it from happening. Tim Sanson lives on 60 acres near Lake ...

The bird watches me with an inquisitive eye. She’s huge, nearly a metre from top-of-head to tail-tip. Her curved hook of a beak looks thick and strong enough to break my finger, so I refrain from ...

In spite of a widespread belief that their race and culture are extinct, Moriori people have survived on the Chatham Islands and are undergoing a cultural revival similar to that of their mainland ...

New research tracking yellow-eyed penguins behaviour on Stewart Island could help prevent them from becoming extinct. Yellow-eyed penguins are endangered and the Rakiura population has dramatically ...

Three hundred kauri saplings grown from seeds saved from the Waitakere property of late artist Colin McCahon have been made available to the public to buy as part of the Kauri Ora project. The project ...

In 1975, New Zealand established the world’s first marine reserves, which became the gold standard for marine conservation and environmental outcomes. Half a century later we lag far behind the rest ...

The Department of Conservation is today considering an appeal against controversial Far North Aupōuri Peninsula water consents. More than $145 million of potential Northland horticultural development ...