Nature / Sustainable Tourism

New Zealand’s wine industry aims to be the first in the world to go sustainable, and has issued a draft sustainability policy to be implemented by vintage 2012.

A New Zealand initiative to establish a World Heritage Starlight Reserve is underway, with 2009 as the goal for the Lake Takapo and Aoraki Mount Cook skies.

From early 2008, passengers on Air New Zealand flights will be invited to pay a few extra dollars to offset their carbon footprint.

The Kiwi Encounter centre in Rotorua has reached a milestone by hatching the 100th Kiwi chick for the 2006/2007 season.

The Hukawai Glacier Centre, complete with its 10 metre high indoor ice-climbing wall, opens to the public on 1 March 2007.

A major milestone has been reached for the royal albatross colony at Taiaroa Head, after the 500th chick hatched on 26 January 2007.

Little Barrier Island, one of New Zealand's premier nature reserves, will become home to 60 free roaming tuatara.

Visitors to Kapiti Island, just north of Wellington, can now experience the conservation in a new way with the opening of a day track at the island’s northern end.