Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Caring for New Zealand’s natural environment so that it can be preserved for future generations is the focus of a new website encouraging best practice for holidaymakers pitching tents, or parking campervans or caravans.

A two-hour test flight in New Zealand skies has been hailed as a “significant milestone” in the development of sustainable air fuels.

The world's first commercial aviation test flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel will take off from Auckland airport next Tuesday (30 December 2008).

Kakapo, tuatara, kiwi and other unique New Zealand wildlife will be the stars in an episode of a major new television series by British writer and actor Stephen Fry.

A rare visit from a humpback whale and her calf to Auckland’s marine doorstep has scientists and whale watchers very excited.

New Zealand’s biggest eco-tourism development, Karori Sanctuary in Wellington, has a new name – Zealandia - a further step towards returning a significant part of the nation’s capital to its pre-human state.

New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, has a huge new treat in store for squid lovers, a world-first colossal squid exhibition due to open in Wellington this Saturday (13.12.08).

New Zealand researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago.

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.

More than 1 million people have watched Tourism New Zealand's television commercial 'Youngest Country' on YouTube in the past year.