Nature / Sustainable Tourism

A rare New Zealand penguin chick is happily back in the wild after turning up in the heart of Christchurch city - more than 10 kilometres from his coastal home.

New Zealand’s adventure capital, Queenstown, is being painted in a different light with a new soft tourism experience that combines art and the outdoors, and gives visitors something special to take home.

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) has picked up a major international award for two conservation projects.

Some of New Zealand’s oldest inhabitants are creating headlines with their unexpected breeding habits - proving there’s life in the old fossils yet.

Air New Zealand could be running its entire domestic fleet on biofuel in the not too distant future according to the company’s chief executive Rob Fyfe.

Same sex parents at New Zealand’s royal albatross colony successfully hatched their first chick on Monday (1.02.10).

New Zealand’s Northland region is enjoying the international tourism spotlight having won a series of significant awards for the best coastline, dive spot and luxury lodges in the world.

In case you didn’t know - underwater ambient noise around New Zealand’s coast gets louder twice a day. And now scientists have discovered why.

An award-winning American travel writer on a ‘luggage free’ journey around the world touched down in Queenstown this week – the last international port of call on his five-week whirlwind ‘no baggage challenge’.

A nine-year-old New Zealand boy has won a major patent prize by inventing an eco-friendly unit that turns food scraps into fertiliser without anyone having to leave the kitchen.