Tahi, once an old farm, is now a haven for endangered bird life, says Jim Eagles.

There are fears for New Zealand's most famous kauri, Northland's Tane Mahuta, after a deadly and infectious tree disease was found less than 500m from it.

The Govt will try to justify mining in conservation land by putting other areas into protection when it announces its plans at 3pm, says Forest & Bird.

Paul Rush pays homage to giant hermaphrodites and fairy people in the ancient kauri kingdom of Waipoua.

A major fire near Dunedin is continuing its destructive path through a large forestry plantation.

Sheep numbers have continued to fall, dairy cow numbers are rising and grain crops increased markedly, latest agricultural production figures show.

Western food manufacturers are buying so little sustainable palm oil that the system set up to limit damage to tropical forests caused by the world's cheapest vegetable oil is in danger of collapse.

Carter Holt Harvey is putting 29 dairy farms on the market, asking $224.5 million in the biggest single offering of farm land seen in NZ.

Police slam the "negligent behaviour" of a person who informed the wrong family about a tragic logging death after listening in on a police scanner.

An eavesdropper informed the wrong family that a relative of their's had died following a forestry accident today.

When Belgian-born Wouter Van Wezemael learned his partner was pregnant, he assumed his dream holiday was off.