Australian man who spent four days up a kauri denied NZ citizenship.

Survival rates fall from 70 per cent in the 1990s to 45 per cent now.

Rescuer killed by avalanche, John Harrison, was one of New Zealand's top climbers.

Stoats ate almost every chick and egg in a Fiordland crested penguin research project.

The inmate who died at Hawkes Bay Prison on Friday was Kolby Heta.

Our alpine parrot may be much smarter than we think, scientists say.

The killer whale was likely the same one that stranded in Whangarei Harbour last year.

The cause of death is not yet known, but photos show possible blunt force trauma to the head.

The homes are between Whangamata and Tairua, areas among the most affected by record-breaking rains.

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.

A bush fire near a Taupo native forest is well under control but it will take crews another few days to make sure it's completely out.

Hundreds of volunteers last night kept a vigil over 120 whales restranded on Farewell Spit near 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.

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.

Dunedin's newest celebrity albatross chick could be reunited with its parents as soon as tomorrow.

Five birds protected under the Wildlife Act have been found shot dead near Little Barrier Island.

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.