Nature / Sustainable Tourism

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

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.

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.

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’.

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

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

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.

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

New Zealand has a reputation for world-leading gay rights so when a couple of rare birds of the same sex teamed up in a shared parenting role, no one was too fazed.

New Zealand’s most popular one day trek is being renamed.