Paul Quinlan wakes up at four, vaguely nervous about the day ahead. The tūī are up particularly early, too, as if to herald a ...

Misinformation about the Treaty of Waitangi, its language and its intent is at the centre of the Treaty Principles Bill ...

In the last century illegal whisky production in Southland’s Hokonui Hills was a subject of police investigations. Today that shady past is a cause for celebration. The legend of Hokonui leads back to ...

If the South Island kōkako is not extinct—if, as many believe, a handful of the birds are still alive in the forests of the ...

Packs of kea are reliable entertainers in places such as Arthur’s Pass or Glacier Country, and new research is showing that kea are smarter and have more complex communication than previously thought.

Retreating glaciers and thinning snow and ice are the future of New Zealand’s mountains. Climate change is predicted to warm the country’s atmosphere by 1–4°C by the end of the century, altering the ...

Small marine creatures can hitch lifts on floating objects all the way to Antarctica, a new study suggests—and as climate ...

A forest is a place of peace. We go there to soak up the stillness, the quietude. But even the most Zen of gardens is in fact a frenetic trading floor, abuzz with an exchange of commodities and ...

The glowering duck on the cover only just made it. As we put this issue together, we were leaning toward a foreboding shot of ...

What to do when giant eagles are hunting you? Change colour, if you’re a kākāpō. Researchers now think the reason kākāpō come ...

Popularly regarded as brainless kamikazes lacking all road sense, pukeko are confounding scientists with their complex, flexible social lives. And, while other native birds struggle to survive ...

In the largest pest-eradication operation yet undertaken in New Zealand, 11,300 ha Campbell Island was blitzed with rat poison in the winter of 2001. Helicopters, such as this Jet Ranger, buzzing ...