Press Releases

New Zealand charcoal technology company Carbonscape is one of five companies to make the shortlist in a global competition, the FT (Financial Times UK) Climate Change Challenge.

Kiwi chefs will work magic with Māori ingredients and wild foods at the 13th Monteith’s Beer and Wild Food Challenge – whipping up dishes of wild game, seafood and indigenous plants to spice up adventurous palates.

Sweet-toothed Kiwis rolled out one of the world’s most unusual charity events when 30,000 Jaffas – an iconic New Zealand sweet – hurtled down the world’s steepest street.

Love is in the air for Conservation Week 2010 – themed ‘Love New Zealand’ – and conservation’s noisiest spokesperson is busy tweeting out the message.

Two world famous chefs, Rick Stein and Gordon Ramsay, will both be staging shows in New Zealand this year - giving them the chance to experience some unique culinary offerings, Kiwi-style.

New Zealand’s famed dawn chorus – a host of unique forest song birds – have gone online singing out for attention.

Kiwi-designed lie-flat economy seats are a major feature of ground-breaking design innovations that Air New Zealand says will transform international air travel.

Kiwis are reputed to be great global travellers but the discovery of New Zealand’s national icon in the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy in outer space has to be off the planet in anyone’s book.

An innovative Kiwi interactive web drama has won an international Emmy Award in Cannes.

It may sound like fantasy but New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) has just listed a real-life dream job.