Kiwi scientists are confident of cracking one of conservation's biggest riddles - cryopreservation.

Conservation Minister Maggie Barry said the Department of Conservation was giving priority to the investigation, now in its third week, but it was "complex."

The same team that recently captured two male kiwi having a testosterone-fuelled scrap have now caught this chance encounter between a tagged kiwi and a feline.

A year after 1080 poison rained from the sky as Reefton sisters were enjoying a picnic near Kokiri, both are still experiencing ill health.

A decade-long project to save endangered giant snails from a West Coast coal mine will finish next year.

Another seal has shown up Auckland — this time in Campbells Bay on the North Shore.

A letter from the Department of Conservation addressed to members of the Taupo Fishery Advisory Committee has been described as proposing "trout farming by stealth" and is certain to raise....

A $11.2 million bag of rescue money for our critically endangered national bird has been welcomed by environmental groups.

Police want to know who took a kayak and a range of survival equipment to Rangitoto Island - and left it there.

They may be hated pests that love eating our cherished native birds, but pesky introduced stoats have just become a little more interesting to scientists overseas.

After 20 years, but family members of the 14 young people who died in the Cave Creek disaster marked the anniversary today by acknowledging that they were ready to move on.

Footage has emerged of the terrifying moment a 6m great white shark lunged at a dinghy carrying an international film crew off Stewart Island.

An enormous effort to save native birds from a tide of pests has delivered some promising results in the South Island, following 1080 drops across vast swathes of beech forest.

The dead oarfish washed up at Aramoana last week has disappeared and marine experts are warning against eating its 3m-long fillets.

Otago Peninsula jewelled geckos smuggled to Germany are the first to return to New Zealand under strengthened rules to crack down on poaching.

A bizarre, self-amputating, vertical swimming, serpent-like marine specimen has washed up on the salt marsh at Aramoana in Dunedin.

A rare kiwi chick that has been recovering at Wellington Zoo for the past six weeks is heading back to the wild.

I spent last week in the Auckland Islands, where only a few people get to go. DoC, the Navy and universities send people down a few times a year.

A real estate agent has been fined after a buyer wasn't told that 112sq m of public land was included within the property boundary fence.

Nearly 10 per cent of our coastal marine area is now safeguarded by reserves. But are we really doing enough? Science reporter Jamie Morton poses five key questions.

A devastated dog owner says he has himself to blame for the canine's slaying of a protected fur seal.

If your stance on foreign ownership of prized New Zealand countryside is black or white, the case of Robert "Mutt" Lange reveals issues that are far from clear-cut.

Check Ditch Keeling's voicemail announcement. "I'm in the middle of killing something right now," it says. "Leave a message and I'll get back to you just as soon as it's dead.

A man whose dog attacked and killed a protected New Zealand fur seal pup on a West Auckland beach has been fined $1000 and will have his dog put down.