Visitors will have to pay more for huts on DoC's popular Great Walks tracks

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing has seen a 10-fold increase in visitor numbers since 1990.

The daily airlift of human waste is hitting DoC's Great Walks budget.

Mining in the Denniston Plateau is being discussed, says Minister Simon Bridges.

An autopsy needs to be completed before a name can be confirmed of body in bush

A rare NZ falcon - the bird on the $20 note - has been shot dead at Paraparaumu.

Fishermen looking to tag bronze whaler sharks instead came upon three great whites.

Conservation firm Goodnature is working towards a pest-free country by 2030.

COMMENT: NZ is unlikely to be pest-free by 2050 but rewarding hunters would help.

The offensive slogan was one of many to spark a complaint against the company.

Five findings from a new independent stocktake of the state of our lakes and rivers.

Broadcaster Alison Ballance discusses her new book on New Zealand's great white sharks.

COMMENT: I've always suspected NZ's scarcity of environmental enforcement was willful.

The bird was thought extinct until 2013 when sightings prompted it to be reclassified.

A man was winched off the side of Mt Ngauruhoe after he was "skittled" by a rock.

Lake Waikaremoana was a top summer stop-off this season. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Six inmates were awarded certificates after completing courses at Auckland Prison today.

Two pods of the marine animals were spotted this morning including a mother and her calf

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.

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.