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New Zealand trawler's latest catch triggers closure
The Tasman Viking trawler, operated by Westfleet Fishing, pulled up 37kg of coral while bottom trawling in the Lord Howe Rise. Video / Mike Scott / Michael Morrah
Dr Jane Goodall visits Saint Kentigern Girls’ School
English primatologist Dr Jane Goodall visits Saint Kentigern Girls’ School in Remuera to support her Roots & Shoots programme. Video / NZherald
Whangārei Bird Recovery Centre appeals for $200K in donations or risks closure
“If we don’t get the funding, we will have no choice but to close the centre"
'Vague and ineffective': Scientists criticise new fishing rules on kina barrens in Northland
'While removing kina treats the symptom, it doesn't address the cause of a sick reef.'
Why Sri Lanka is at war with its beloved elephants
470 elephants and 176 people died last year in Sri Lanka's undeclared conservation war.
Black, white and all over the runway: Penguin delays flights at Wellington Airport
Flightlessness didn’t stop a penguin from storming the runway at Wellington.
Dog toy resembling kiwi pulled from Mitre 10 shelves
A conservation group is praising the hardware store's move.
Opinion: Aotearoa’s most ambitious response to climate change and the biodiversity crisis
Climate change is causing increasingly frequent and severe weather events.
John Oliver’s campaign misplaced, Otago advocates back hoiho
The comedian's international campaign for Bird of the Century has ruffled some feathers.
Sperm whale given Māori blessing after dying on Christchurch beach
"There was a lot of karakia from our whānau. This has really impacted the community."
The Great Barrier Reef is worth saving and this is how you do it
Go and make Sir David Attenborough proud.
Great Walk number 12: North Canterbury gets vote of confidence
A new Great Walk is one of the proposals from the campaign trail.
Kākāpō wild in Waikato for first time in 60 years
Four of the world's rarest flightless parrots have been rehomed on mainland New Zealand.
Great Walk bookings return with a spring in their step
Planning for the summer walking season is back on track.
Opinion: Kermadecs no sanctuary from obligations to Māori
Opinion: Hui on massive no-fish zone northeast of New Zealand faces a few hooks.
Superblooming: Tourists zip, hike and ride to phenomenon, visible from space
Southern California has gone wildflower crazy.
Name that bird: AI researchers create 'Shazam' for NZ native species
A new app uses artificial intelligence to identify over 11,000 native birds and plants.
Ports of Auckland will contribute $1.5 million to preserve the Waitematā Harbour
Auckland Ports funding group to preserve Harbour as part of settlement of legal case.
Cruise cling-ons: Five ships given biofouling warnings by Biosecurity NZ
What's behind the marine alien invasion on the underside of cruise ships?
‘Stop licking toads’ National Park Service tells visitors
Tourists have been not to lick potent desert toads.
Wild things: Comedy Wildlife Photography finalists revealed
Like a David Attenborough blooper reel, this is nature at its most awkward.
Three years of work, but a fraction of a second to snatch award-winning shot
Painstaking preparation plus action, distance, lighting and angles created a winner.
Norilsk: Why people come to the 'most depressing city on earth'
The Russian town of Norilsk is closer to the North Pole than it is to Moscow.
Puffer jackets to parks: Patagonia in deal for Albanian wilderness area
The Californian company is drafting a plan for the new park.
Kākāpō stars in game to save 'weird' endangered species
New Zealand's bird has been given star treatment.
Big Steven Irwin secret revealed
Olympian Lisa Curry reveals the "shemozzle that should never have happened" in memoir.
Earth Day: How Fiji's Surfer Laws could save their islands
Fiji is the only place you can be fined $1000 for sharking a wave.