Stunned staff and some 100 swimmers watched in disbelief as a fun-loving sea lion waddled through reception and cafe to "swim laps" in a public pool yesterday.

A German tourist is the first person to be caught breaking new marine reserve rules after a ranger spotted him taking mussels at a popular tourist beach at Punakaiki.

Summer is the season for Jandals and chilly bins and it's also when a host of shark species make an appearance.

Losing our native species is not an inevitability but a choice - and one that could hurt New Zealand in more ways than we realise.

Pitch your tent and slap on the insect repellent — DoC reveals its most used campsites.

They promise cut-through responses to challenges that may seem overwhelming: wiping out the pests that kill 25 million native birds a year; local efforts to save our polluted rivers; teaching....

New Zealand is winning the battle to save our national icon, a Department of Conservation expert says, though an average 27 kiwi are still being lost each week.

The pesticide 1080 will be dumped from helicopters on the Hunua Ranges - the source of Auckland's water supply - next winter, Auckland Council has confirmed.

The pesticide 1080 is likely to dumped from helicopters next winter on the Hunua Ranges, source of Auckland’s water supply.

A planned 1080 drop in South Westland has been called off as there are not enough rats.

The Department of Conservation says it is still searching for the owner of a dog that killed a baby fur seal on an Auckland Beach last week.

The Department of Conservation is warning anglers not to eat trout in areas where 1080 poison has been dropped - a reversal of its position seven months ago.

The Department of Conservation and other pest management bodies will have an extra tool to battle rats, stoats and possums with Ohiti - a new trap sensor system.

Two Reefton women who were caught in the bush as 1080 poison rained from the sky last summer are now both reporting ill health.

A dead whale that has washed on to the shore of Taranaki is thought to weigh about 100 tonnes and is unlikely to be moved from its final resting spot.

The Department of Conservation spent more than $100k sending staff overseas to learn a firefighting skill they don't even use here - and it plans to send them again.

The discovery of 44 critically endangered Archey's frogs just a few kilometres from Whangamata has heartened an amphibian expert.

Get out the gumboots and spades, urges Dionne Christian, and plant natives to spruce up the region's parks.

The Conservation Minister has been challenged to justify the use of taxpayer money to clear pests from a private island owned by Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite.

Labour is asking why the Department of Conservation is carrying out pest control on a private island owned by Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite.

Three Auckland fishermen chanced upon a great white shark during a day in the Hauraki Gulf over the long weekend.