Press Releases

A New Zealand initiative to establish a World Heritage Starlight Reserve is underway, with 2009 as the goal for the Lake Takapo and Aoraki Mount Cook skies.

The unique natural environment of Farewell Spit, at the northernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island, has landed the area on UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites.

New Zealand’s newest adventure attraction, the Shweeb Velodrome, will open in Rotorua in late August 2007.

Hundreds of homing pigeons are helping to promote aviation history, crossing the Cook Strait to deliver pieces of a billboard.

Southland shearer Jimmy Clark has smashed a world record after shearing 560 ewes in eight hours.

Peter Jackson’s King Kong will return in a world first exhibition hosted exclusively by Lower Hutt’s TheNewDowse museum.

New Zealand will host the World Heritage Committee’s annual meeting for the first time in July 2007.

The company whose computer graphics brought the America's Cup alive on the big screen is now turning its technology skyward.

New Zealand’s great sheep farming heritage has inspired the supreme winning entry in this year’s Montana World of Wearable Art Awards.