Boaties heading out after spring snapper are being asked to keep an eye on the sky as well as the sounder. Flesh-footed shearwaters, a declining seabird that breeds only on…
Lower Hutt residents who have spent years shutting their windows against the smell of sewage have been told a fix is coming, but not before the stench gets worse again…
Taking most sea life from rockpools and beaches across Auckland, Waiheke and the Coromandel will be banned indefinitely from 1 November.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has asked every household to pack a grab bag and agree an escape plan before summer arrives, warning that the very strong El Niño now…
New Zealand’s heaviest insect has been pulled back from the brink. The Little Barrier giant wētā, known in Māori as wētāpunga, was once reduced to a single shrinking population on…
New Zealand has warmed 1.36°C since 1909 and carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide hit record highs at Baring Head in 2025, Stats NZ data released 2 October shows.
Up to 15 rare pygmy killer whales have died in a stranding on Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North, eight years after the same species stranded there in 2018.
Kingfish are already on the outer Gulf workups and gurnard are feeding up before their early summer spawn. The 17 degree dates, the rules, and the stock reports for both…
Wellington City Council and the region’s new water company, Tiaki Wai, have both been charged over the sewage that has poured into the sea off Wellington’s south coast since the…
More than 11,000 people, including Helen Clark, want Sams Creek added to Kahurangi National Park to protect it from gold mining.
Police removed five Greenpeace protesters from the government-owned research ship Tangaroa in Wellington Harbour on Saturday, after activists boarded the vessel to protest its survey work for an American company…
The Antarctic ozone hole reached 27.4 million square kilometres in September 2026, its largest in about 20 years, and Otago researchers predicted it in May.
Almost every adult snapper on the west coast grew up in the Kaipara. Here is when the harbour warms into its season, what the 2026 stock report says, the rules,…
The last of about 2000 kauri seedlings grown from 650 healthy mother trees were planted in Auckland’s Waitākere Ranges in the hope they resist kauri dieback.
Recreational fishers anywhere in New Zealand will soon be limited to 10 tarakihi a day, after Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones today announced cuts to catch limits for one…
Wellington’s Moa Point sewage treatment plant flooded five times in the four months before it failed catastrophically on 4 February, according to an engineering report that was released today after…
The black robin has taken its first Bird of the Year title, in an election with the biggest homegrown turnout the competition has recorded.
Pippa Yates spotted bone in a clay bank at St Andrews Beach south of Timaru. The South Canterbury Museum confirmed it was moa, and she has kept finding more.
Residents at Port Waikato who built their own seawall to stop the sea taking their homes are now asking Waikato District Council to help pay the $60,000 a year it…
The inner Hauraki Gulf reaches the 16 degree feeding mark and the 18 degree spawning mark on dates we can now put numbers on, from 41 springs of satellite data,…
New Zealand’s most secretive wetland bird is about to start booming, and a volunteer-run project wants 1,200 people sitting quietly at the edge of swamps, lakes and reed beds to…
Biosecurity teams on Auckland’s North Shore are stepping up their hunt for the yellow-legged hornet as the weather warms, in case any queen hornets survived the winter and are about…
The leopard seal that drew crowds to Petone Beach in early September has died, according to Hutt City councillor Brady Dyer. Dyer said the Department of Conservation had been told…
A University of Otago researcher has caught fish hundreds of metres down in two Fiordland lakes, far deeper than fish had been recorded in any New Zealand lake.
The volunteers who have spent years fixing up New Zealand’s remote huts and tracks have a new formal agreement with the Department of Conservation, though for now it changes nothing…
The first royal albatross chicks of the season have left Taiaroa Head near Dunedin, the only mainland site in the world where the giant seabirds breed, and rangers are hoping…
Gisborne District Council burnt nearly 1100 cubic metres of logs and slash opposite Watson Park in a trial and decides Friday on a full burn of up to seven days…
A southern right whale and her calf have moved south past Auckland after four days off Northland, and DOC wants people watching from the beach rather than the water.
A leopard seal hauled out on Petone Beach on Saturday afternoon and DOC says more than 150 people have been down to look at it.
Polls opened on Friday for Bird of the Year 2026, and this year the native birds have been sorted into six parties. Voting closes on 20 September.