Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Climate change and its effect on the world will be highlighted this month at a festival in the New Zealand city of Christchurch - gateway to the last great wilderness on earth.

The rarest Kiwis in the world have launched their breeding season by producing a record number of eggs.

Six of New Zealand’s best surf breaks will get national park status if a new coastal policy proposed by the Department of Conservation goes ahead.

New Zealand wines have won a record 11 gold medals at the 2008 International Wine and Spirit Competition in London.

New Zealand’s native parrot the kakariki and syrah wine may, on the face of it, have little in common but a mutually beneficial arrangement is about to make the release of one help fund the release of the other.

New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, already claiming to be the world’s most environmentally responsible airline, has announced another batch of new initiatives towards sustainable air travel.

Kiwi skateboarder Rob Thomson has completed an epic solo skateboard journey through three continents that began in Switzerland and finished in Shanghai.

A family of New Zealand’s more curious insects has moved into an Auckland luxury hotel.

New Plymouth on the west coast of the North Island has been named New Zealand's Top Town in a national magazine poll.

New Zealand has boosted its allocation of parkland with the government purchase of a high country station that borders some of the best known national parks.