Press Releases

New Zealand has a reputation for world-leading gay rights so when a couple of rare birds of the same sex teamed up in a shared parenting role, no one was too fazed.

Napier - New Zealand’s Art Deco capital - turned back the clocks for last weekend's Art Deco celebration (19 -22 February).

Art Deco will come under the spotlight during the Bluewater Hotel Deco Decanted Weekend as the Art Deco Trust of Napier, in Hawke’s Bay, celebrates 25 years.

A group of Native Americans are on a spiritual mission in New Zealand – to ask chinook salmon to return home to California.

Christchurch - and all of New Zealand - is celebrating the arrival of a real Easter chick.

A male kakapo, one of a handful of New Zealand’s remaining native parrots, has been found on an island off the south of the South Island after 21 years on the missing list.

The Rimu tree could hold the key to saving New Zealand’s endangered kakapo bird.

Discarded New Zealand farm fence posts are the raw material behind an international beauty industry innovation.

Spectacular Milford Sound, on New Zealand’s southern West Coast, will compete against some of the world's great scenic marvels in a global search for the ‘Seven Wonders of Nature’.

New Zealand’s Milford Sound, described by Rudyard Kipling as the 'eighth wonder of the world', has been shortlisted in a global search for the new seven natural wonders of the world.