Features

Tapu is an ancient belief system of the New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori.

Some human beings simply can’t get enough adventure. Barely three months after becoming the first double amputee to conquer Mt Everest, and less than two months after surgery to remove five fingertips and more of his legs, Mark Inglis went paragliding over Lake Wakatipu.

'No matter where I am in the world, the East Coast of Aotearoa will always be my home. It's like the magnetic lodestone that keeps pulling me back to our island fortress at the bottom of the South Pacific,' Witi Ihimaera says.

As unenticing as burnt toast may sound, it has certainly intrigued art buffs in galleries nationally and internationally, thanks to Maurice Bennett's pixilated 'toast portraits' and 'tapa cloth' toast designs.

Keeping the environment clean and as green as possible has become part of the New Zealand psyche.

Birds have a special place in the folklore of New Zealand Maori, who believed the graceful winged creatures to be messengers from the spirit world.

An essential part of the New Zealand experience is hearing its beautiful and unique birdsong. But the source of this melodious sound must be protected, with 73 of New Zealand’s native bird species on the World Conservation Union’s 'red list' of species threatened with extinction.

Feature and interview with former All Black and rugby legend, Jonah Lomu.

Most people choose to visit Fiordland, New Zealand’s southern paradise in summer, but as Joe Russell discovers, spring and autumn is really the time to go.

A band of larger-than-life characters are emerging from remote corners of New Zealand to make their mark on the world stage in 2005.