Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Manawatu’s 6000-year-old sand dune field has attracted great interest from geographers world-wide.

Carrington Resort located in Carrington Farms offers luxury accommodation, a tournament standard golf course, an Angus stud farm, one of Northland's largest plantings of grapes and a restored wetland and thriving breeding zone for birds.

In the Southern Alps of the South Island, a clownish colourful native parrot called the kea performs antics that can be both alarming and amusing.

Franz Josef is not your average glacier – it is a 12km long, 7000-year-old body of ice sliding down a mountain valley into a rainforest.

Within the unfenced boundaries of Fiordland, one of the largest national parks in the world, is some of the most wild and dramatic scenery in New Zealand.

Hell's Gate and Wai Ora Spa, Tikitere is a unique place of extreme contrasts. Visitors walk past steaming fumeroles and pools of boiling mud so violent they are unnerving.

Clean and green, wholesome and healthy, New Zealanders are keen producers of organic food, wine and beer.

Getting back to nature doesn’t mean roughing it in a tent. Many New Zealand wilderness lodges are at the forefront of eco-tourism.

The Department of Conservation is a government agency with a mandate to help people enjoy themselves in the outdoors.

Background information on New Zealand's three World Heritage sites: Te Wahipounamu, Tongariro National Park and the Sub-Antarctic Islands.