Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has put $2 million from the international visitor levy into the Whangamarino wetland and $75,000 into giant wētā breeding at Otorohanga Kiwi House.
Three patrols around Whananaki in late August turned up a 100 percent non-compliance rate, including 42 undersized packhorse rock lobster, speared animals and seized dive gear.
Australia is withdrawing all 24 staff from its Macquarie Island station before an expected bird flu die-off, and New Zealand’s subantarctic islands lie about 700km away.
Tiki Wine & Vineyards in North Canterbury is the first New Zealand vineyard and winery to hold Certified Regenerative status from A Greener World, after six years of rebuilding soil…
A northern giant petrel picked up on a Cape Palliser beach is New Zealand’s third confirmed H5 bird flu case, with no poultry detections and no mass die-offs so far.
Twenty community groups share $9.2 million from the DOC Community Fund, in a round that drew 121 applications after 291 last year.
A rubbish dump that Auckland has been arguing about for close to a decade was back in front of a court on Thursday, with Forest and Bird asking the Court…
A flock of wild sheep that has been running in the hill country of inland Hawke’s Bay since the 1880s is down to roughly 300 animals, and the first straws…
A 21.7 metre pygmy blue whale has come ashore at Carters Beach near Westport, giving scientists a rare look at an animal New Zealanders seldom see.
A British parliamentary committee has called for flea and tick treatments to be pulled off supermarket and pet shop shelves, and New Zealand researchers say the same chemicals are already…
Fire and Emergency wants eastern New Zealand ready for a long wildfire season, with forecasters warning of one of the strongest El Nino events on record.
Two of New Zealand’s rarest birds have been picked for the newly launched Phoenix Species Project, a $200 million international fund aimed at recovering 100 critically endangered species.
Wild deer have been a background nuisance on many Hawke’s Bay farms for years, a shape at the edge of the headlights and a bit of chewed pasture in the…
Gathering mussels, pāua and cockles will stay off limits around Waiheke Island, at Umupuia Beach east of Auckland and along a stretch of the Thames coast for another two years,…
Nicola Grigg has put $464,000 towards testing what is seeping out of a Whanganui dump that closed in 2001, one of about 3,500 old landfills around New Zealand.
Every New Zealander uses a truckload of mined rock a year, yet new mines split the country. Both sides of the New Zealand mining debate, with the numbers.
A government review released on Thursday has recommended New Zealand legalise plug-in solar, the small panels that run into an ordinary wall socket, and strip out layers of paperwork that…
Poultry farmers running more than 100 birds will have to write, register and follow a bird flu plan for their properties under regulations Cabinet has approved, making on-farm biosecurity compulsory…
A temporary emergency closure becomes a permanent rule from 16 September, with a hard limit of four yellow-eyed penguin deaths a year from fishing.
Two pōhutukawa trees on the public land behind Hahei Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula have been drilled and poisoned, and the Department of Conservation has asked anyone who knows who…
A record 228 humpback whales were sighted off the Kaikōura coast during this year’s Great Kaikōura Whale Count, the highest tally since the community survey began in 2020, with the…
Wild deer numbers have climbed back to the levels New Zealand last saw in the 1950s and 1960s, and three of the country’s senior forest ecologists say the result is…
New Zealand has quietly passed one gigawatt of solar on local networks, new Electricity Authority data shows, and businesses now hold more of it than homes.
The most photographed day walk in the country is about to get its centrepiece back. The Department of Conservation has confirmed that a new 189 metre suspension bridge on the…
A black cat has wandered into the middle of New Zealand’s most closely watched seabird colony, appearing on the live camera trained on a royal albatross nest at Pukekura, or…
Auckland’s biggest ever wastewater project is now carrying flows along its entire length, seven years after the first diggers arrived. Watercare confirmed on Monday that the northern section of the…
Two H5N1 cases, no new ones since, and a volunteer scheme running since 1951 that has never mattered more.
A record seeding across the South Island’s beech forests has set off the largest predator control programme the Department of Conservation has ever run. The forests dropped what DOC describes…
Conservation teams have vaccinated about 90 kākāpā against bird flu, a precaution taken in the same week that the virus was confirmed in New Zealand for the first time. The…
New Zealand’s latest government environment reports span 2023 to 2026. Here is what they agree on, where they diverge, and what the country cannot measure.