Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Not all kiwi families have been affected by the recession – gloom and doom hasn’t reached New Zealand’s Ruahine Ranges where it’s been a bumper breeding season for eastern North Island brown kiwi.

A dashing dolphin called George is charming boatloads of tourists at the Abel Tasman National Park in the northern part of New Zealand’s South Island.

May is New Zealand Music Month, the annual celebration of home-grown talent, which this year is about to expose some of the country’s best-known singers who’ve yet to record a chart-topping hit.

Canadian country singer Shania Twain and New Zealand's Prime Minister sing to the same tune.

Carbon has been declared the enemy of the Wellington tourism industry as a growing number of operators join the battle towards a sustainable future.

New Zealand's clean green image undergoes its most important exposure yet as the country plays host to the 2008 World Environment Day.

First there were celebrity dolphins and an accident-prone kiwi. Next a cave-dweller hermit sheep, a rather forward flightless parrot and a sand-eating penguin – and now New Zealand has another animal celebrity.

A cheeky New Zealand parrot has flown off with a British visitor’s passport after plucking it from the courier bag of a tourist bus in the South Island.

Electronic chick and egg timers are being used to improve the survival rates of kiwi in the wild.

It's official ... Manukura, the first white kiwi chick hatched in captivity in New Zealand, is a girl.