Nature / Sustainable Tourism

A New Zealand teenager, who grew up in a town without a cinema, has had her first big film break and is in the running for the world’s most prestigious environmental movie award.

The feather of an extinct New Zealand bird has sold for a world record price at an auction in Auckland.

Whale Watch Kaikoura has won a second international accolade – in the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards announced in Beijing today (26.05.2010).

Japanese tourists, who joined locals in a fun run through a remote New Zealand kauri forest, were helping to celebrate a burgeoning friendship between two different cultures.

New Zealand’s largest international tourism event TRENZ opens in Auckland next week (24.05.2010), with new products to tempt the world’s travel and tourism industry.

Tourists and professional whale watchers on New Zealand whale watching safaris have been treated to some recent rare sightings as the winter whale season swings into action.

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

All 30 kiwi re-located in New Zealand’s largest-ever wildlife transfer operation are doing well and appear to be happy in their new home at the Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre in Wairarapa.

An authentic slice of New Zealand’s natural environment and culture transported to Shanghai for Expo 2010 is proving a hit with visitors.

A select group of native kiwi will get right royal treatment when they fly with the air force as part of New Zealand’s largest-ever wildlife transfer next week.