Press Releases

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.

Mat Follas, a Kiwi cook inspired by the fresh, simple approach of New Zealand chefs, has been crowned winner of MasterChef 2009 – one of Britain’s most sought after culinary titles.

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

New Zealand's climate offers more than Australia's when it comes to a long life span, according to new research into frogs.

In another Mount Everest first, New Zealand skydiver Wendy Smith was one of three dare-devil skydivers to make the first ever solo parachute jump over the world’s highest peak.

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.

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.

The cast of the American television comedy Scrubs has been saved from a gastronomic emergency thanks to a hand-delivered consignment of its favourite New Zealand cheese.

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.