Only 300 individual birds in New Zealand have any sort of protection from H5N1, which has devastated wild birds and domestic ...
Avian flu has arrived in New Zealand, riding along with a sick skua. Scientists have been worried about this moment for ...
This coastal walk is arguably one of the best overnight tramps in the Waitakere Ranges, the densely forested hills on Auckland’s northwestern flank. It’s a tramp through subtropical forest to a ...
My journey began when I saw a photograph of two women laughing in front of a road sign that read ‘Forgotten World Highway’, part of a slide show played during the funeral of a dear friend. Thelma and ...
What would New Zealand’s history be like without the world wars? The terrible Russian winter and Napoleon’s folly may be to blame for those catastrophes, according to historian Adam Zamoyski’s ...
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 ...
The difference between exploring and being lost is the ability to return home. Te Rā tells the story of Māori voyaging and weaving technology, and has finally returned home—for now. It’s a cold winter ...
When the 70 kea beaks slide out of the ancient cloth salt bag onto a table in the Otago Museum, they jingle like a sack full of money. It’s appropriate, because for a century, that’s pretty much what ...
The social security act was passed 50 years ago in September 1938. It was the culmination of the Labour government’s efforts to ensure its citizens would never again suffer the poverty experienced ...
Not seen since 1922, Hadramphus tuberculatus (the Canterbury knob-bled weevil) has been largely forgotten—a category X (presumed extinct) species. It was once common throughout lowland Canterbury ...
When schools of trevally foam the water in feeding mode, bringing krill and small fish to the surface, it’s a chance for tītī wainui/fairy prions to get a meal as well. In northern New Zealand, these ...
Rakiura’s western shoreline is the flotsam-and-jetsam coast. Here the detritus of human endeavour mingles with nature’s dead—albatrosses, whales, kelp, fish. It is the dune coast, too, where a ...
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