Autumn Frail morning sunlight shimmers on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. I clamber across black scoria rocks with my guide, emeritus Professor John Morton, now in his late seventies. We’re on Milford Reef, ...

This week’s critter is the ngaro tara or three-lined hoverfly, a noisy native species with an important role as a pollinator. Ngaro tara have an ugly duckling life history, turning from a rat-tailed ...

New Zealand’s biggest salmon farmer has failed in a bid to alter compliance rules, after concerns it would widen a waste “footprint” in the Marlborough Sounds. NZ King Salmon sought to tweak the terms ...

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

A female employment skills course in Greymouth has helped several women into work in the environment sector on the West Coast. The Wāhine Toa course was designed by the Ministry for Social Development ...

In other news, Antarctica New Zealand wants your input on the Scott Base redevelopment by choosing the building’s colour. The buildings will be surrounded by ice… so designers are offering the options ...

Plans to set up 3000-hectare ecosanctuary in Wainuiomata Lower Hutt have taken a step forward, with a feasibility study from Zealandia’s founder. The project would see 29km of predator fencing around ...

Fiordland tourism operators say the rules governing the national park are outdated and leave no room for common sense. Each national park is required to have its management plan reviewed every 10 ...

Could the harm that results from recreational drug use and abuse be mostly caused by their criminalisation and demonisation rather than their physical effects? When used responsibly, can drugs can ...

Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...

Riley Elliott is a shark researcher who is determined to protect the tiger sharks off Norfolk Island, who feast on cow carcasses dumped by farmers on the old penal colony. The sharks and their ...

The Department of Conservation’s new visitor strategy acknowledges more work needs to be done to manage iconic sites under pressure, but does not spell out what it will implement. Today DOC unveiled ...