Press Releases

For the first time in 30,000 years, scientists have simulated Neanderthal voices – and it’s a similar sound to the New Zealand accent!

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’.

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

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.

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

New Zealand’s most popular one day trek is being renamed.

A New Zealander will try to break the world record for the most bungy jumps in 24 hours when he leaps off the Auckland Harbour Bridge next month.

It is exactly 100 years since New Zealand's greatest scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

New Zealand’s Olympic rowing golden girls, the Evers-Swindell twins – Caroline and Georgina - celebrated their 30th birthday by announcing their retirement.

New Zealand has strengthened its reputation as a wine growing, seafaring nation with an annual event that could become the Kiwi version of the beaujolais nouveau race.