Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Eco-sustainability and a four star luxury rating are not usually bedfellows: but Awaroa Lodge, based in Abel Tasman National Park, combines the two effortlessly.

Keeping the environment clean and as green as possible has become part of the New Zealand psyche.

Birds have a special place in the folklore of New Zealand Maori, who believed the graceful winged creatures to be messengers from the spirit world.

Essential to the New Zealand experience is the unique sound of the beautiful song birds heard in forests, hills and backyards all over the country. It's a melodious chorus that - with 73 of New Zealand’s native bird species on the World Conservation Union’s 'red list' of threatened species - must be protected.

A list UK nurseries selling New Zealand plants including Avant Gardener which was established by New Zealand expat James Fraser.

With its native bush, coastal rainforest and rugged black sand beaches, Auckland's west coast is a nature's playground for visitors to explore.

Unique New Zealand native plants and trees: coprosma, kauri, kowhai, kowharawhara, lancewood, nikau, rata, rimu, totara.

Most people choose to visit Fiordland, New Zealand’s southern paradise in summer, but as Joe Russell discovers, spring and autumn is really the time to go.

New Zealand’s own Stonehenge Aotearoa, located in the Wairarapa opened in February 2005.

Botanist and guru of New Zealand foliage, Tony Foster, has set up a new venture tucked in a special corner of Northland, giving overseas visitors a unique first-hand experience of New Zealand’s plant life.