Only 300 individual birds in New Zealand have any sort of protection from H5N1, which has devastated wild birds and domestic ...

Winding up to competitions, Te Toki’s teenagers endure pre-dawn alarms, 3.8-kilometre runs around the lake, customised gym routines, and training to finesse paddle skills. On the south-eastern shore ...

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The dark bird. The rare bird. The noble, silly, insomniac parrot we’re going to ...

Geo News The weight of what we’ve lost Since the 1850s, two per cent of marine mammal species have gone extinct. But if we look at the biomass—if we add up everything that makes up whales, dolphins, ...

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga over about nine months. Here, 100 kilometres into her odyssey and deeply unsure about her capacity to finish it, ...

Leslie Adkin wore a lot of hats: photographer, farmer, pioneering tramper, husband and father, self-taught geologist, anthropologist. But it’s his pictures that have had the broadest impact. His ...

Until recently, scientists didn’t think our amber held any insects. Now, they’ve found more than 200 specimens—immaculately preserved, and each telling a story about our prehistoric past. The digger ...

What would the beach be without red-billed gulls? We may be about to find out. Two huge colonies have already gone under and the next biggest, in Kaikōura, is failing fast. In December 2023, ...

Bruce “Chopper” Reay has lived in a remote deerstalkers’ hut on the edge of Fiordland National Park for most of his life. But he’s not exactly off the grid. If you didn’t know better, Bruce Reay and ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

In 1986, when Suzanne Heywood was 16, her father drove her to a tiny bach on the shore of Lake Rotoiti and left her there. She was to care for her younger brother while their parents took paying ...