Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Christchurch - and all of New Zealand - is celebrating the arrival of a real Easter chick.

A male kakapo, one of a handful of New Zealand’s remaining native parrots, has been found on an island off the south of the South Island after 21 years on the missing list.

The Rimu tree could hold the key to saving New Zealand’s endangered kakapo bird.

Discarded New Zealand farm fence posts are the raw material behind an international beauty industry innovation.

Spectacular Milford Sound, on New Zealand’s southern West Coast, will compete against some of the world's great scenic marvels in a global search for the ‘Seven Wonders of Nature’.

Nature lovers heading out into the New Zealand wild and keen to learn can now arm themselves with a comprehensive all-in-one guide to the native flora and fauna they encounter.

It seems fatherhood has no age limit especially in the reptile community – an 111-year-old New Zealand tuatara has just become a Dad for the first time.

They are New Zealand’s national icon – and a new campaign to protect them has been launched at Auckland Zoo.

A new wildlife centre that offers the best chance to see New Zealand’s rarest rowi kiwi will open at Franz Josef, on the West Coast of the South Island next month.

New Zealand’s west coast city of New Plymouth has been named one of best places in the world to live in an environment-based competition endorsed by the United Nations.