Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Kapiti Island offers a unique opportunity to view a range of New Zealand’s most endangered and rare birds, in a completely natural surrounding ...

Tucked away in one of the most remote corners of Fiordland, Doubtful Sound offers a unique wilderness experience including the chance to see one of the rarest penguins in the world - the Fiordland Crested Penguin ...

The Milford Road is one of the world’s finest alpine highways, winding through spectacular and varied scenery that changes from rolling farmland, to beech forest, through an alpine zone and into dense rainforest ...

According to Maori legend, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) was formed, not by rivers of ice, but by Tu-te-raki-whanoa, an atua (godly figure), who was given the task of shaping the Fiordland coast. Singing a powerful karakia (chant), he began attacking the towering rock walls with his toki (adze) called Te Hamo ...

The ancient Maori name, 'Te Anau-au' means 'the cave with a current of swirling water', and it was this translation that led to the rediscovery of the Te Anau Glowworm Caves in 1948.

Giant squid has never been seen alive, but a fully preserved specimen, named Maximum, can be viewed at the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Hawke’s Bay.

Visitors can now experience a livestock sale at New Zealand’s largest livestock saleyards in the Manawatu region.

Wairere, a valley of basalt boulders in the Hokianga, may be one of the Far North’s most remarkable, yet undiscovered rock formations.

The Himatangi sand dunes were once an important gathering place for Maori who regularly visited the area to fish and collect shellfish. The middens (piles of shells) they left behind provide a fascinating record of what the area used to look like.

Situated at Foxton, the Manawatu River Estuary is one of the most important estuarine ecosystems in New Zealand.