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Four homes uninhabitable after floods
The homes are between Whangamata and Tairua, areas among the most affected by record-breaking rains.
The homes are between Whangamata and Tairua, areas among the most affected by record-breaking rains.
A three-metre-long Leopard seal has been relaxing at Tutukaka
COMMENT: While those who oppose 1080 will say it's indiscriminate, what's the alternative, asks Rachel Smalley.
Breeding colony of 2000 seals north of Kaikoura at risk as part of SH1 rebuild.
COMMENT: Parks provide essential services from cradle to grave and need to be reserved decades ahead of use.
There are, clearly, mechanisms which could help better manage pressures arising from tourism - and sustain the appeal of our natural assets.
COMMENT: Dame Fiona Kidman's submission to the select committee on Pike River was study in empathy, writes Audrey Young.
The teenager jailed for six years after he stabbed a West Auckland dairy owner to death has been granted regular releases from jail.
DoC staff were tonight monitoring a pod of about 200 pilot whales milling around in the sea off Golden Bay.
Twenty pilot whales have beached themselves again and will be euthanised, DoC said, as volunteers are warned to be careful around decomposing whales.
All 100 of the surviving beached whales at Farewell Spit have been successfully refloated as volunteers scrambled to stop another pod swimming into shore.
Emotional scenes as whale rescue volunteers sang to and even named many of the pilot whales stranded - and those refloated - on Farewell Spit.
Volunteers desperately trying to save 100 surviving whales that have beached on Farewell Spit are being warned about the risk of sharks in the water.
Rescuers who tried to refloat beached whales to return at first light.
A whale rescue expert is critical Department of Conservation crews didn't act sooner in last night's devastating whale stranding.
A fishing boat has run aground off the sensitive Otago coast.
Searchers are poised to go into the Southern Alps for an overdue Israeli tramper.
A plan to bring our national bird back from the brink and super-charge local kiwi conservation efforts is being launched today.
Search teams elated as DOC worker stumbles across missing tourist.
Albatross chick has lost weight after being found riddled with maggots.
The war on plant and animal pests through more than 1400ha of bush, scrub and farmland between Whangarei and Dargaville is being ramped
Scientists just back from an annual white-capped albatross census in the remote and windswept subantarctic islands are hopeful for the welfare of the iconic endemic seabirds.
Volunteers are pollinating Dactylanthus plants on Mt Pirongia 'paint brush-style' in the hope to repopulate the maunga with the indigenous plant. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
A pussy could be on the loose in a Northland nature sanctuary.
A Northland man has been charged with lighting 10 fires in the Kaipara area that have destroyed areas of conservation land and a forest
The Hakarimata Track is not in danger from the fire, but remains closed this morning.
Scientists are this week heading to the subantarctic Auckland Islands for an annual survey of white-capped albatross and New Zealand sea lion numbers in the remote and windswept region.
A 300kg leopard seal looks to be in Auckland to stay, as the hefty visitor makes itself a summer spectacle for ferry commuters.
DoC's confusing direction signs raise the ire of Stephanie Holmes.
A fire which burned through 100ha of hillside near Arthur's Pass last week and four more fires on Saturday are suspected to be the work of an arsonist.