Press Releases

New Zealand will be back at London’s Chelsea Flower Show in May 2011 for the first time in five years – with an exotic urban garden that focuses on diversity and sustainability.

A New Zealand garden transported to the other side of the earth for the world famous Chelsea Flower show has not only won a silver medal, but also the royal stamp of approval from the Queen.

A low-budget New Zealand documentary film has sold out all three 1000-seat screenings at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival.

Little Richter – the first kiwi hatched in the 2010 season at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve – has proved that it takes a lot to crack a kiwi.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.