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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Wild Life is full of scenes familiar to any tramper: highcountry tarns, huts nestled into bush-coated hills, mist hanging ...

Lullabies for her toddlers, Ahipakeka and Amos. Cook Islands Māori when she’s earning her living, carving and building ...

In the spring of 2018, for a feature we published in Issue 155, Richard Robinson photographed endangered tarāpuka, ...

Lead is highly toxic—but to kea, the metal tastes like a sweet treat. So for years, the native parrots have been dying of lead poisoning: enduring vomiting, seizures, cognitive decline, and starving.

If our memories make us who we are, what’s it like to have a different type of memory entirely? What can animals remember? Do ...

At Cooks Beach, waves at high tide overtopped the sea wall protecting the first row of baches. Behind the smooth blue curve of Cooks Beach, there’s a sandy road edged in rough grass, and then rows of ...