Nature / Sustainable Tourism

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.

New Zealand’s iconic Milford Sound has moved up the rankings in a global search for the ‘Seven Wonders of Nature’ as on-line voters help to heat up competition.

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.

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

British actor, author and comedian Stephen Fry has been on the receiving end of some unusually close encounters during a BBC filming expedition in New Zealand.

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’.

A playful family group of orcas are the latest holidaymakers to stop off in the deep blue waters of Queen Charlotte Sound, at the tip of New Zealand’s South Island.

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).