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

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

Rachel Reeves has impeccable pedigree: her step-grandfather, the late Harry Napa, opened the first private accommodation on ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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