Mother and her two daughters are among the hundreds who have staged a protest outside dental practice of man who killed Cecil.

US dentist who achieved worldwide notoriety for killing the most famous lion in Africa paid out US$127,500 to settle lawsuit.

Montaperto is a true country girl. It was a year before boyfriend Jaimee Ellis saw her in makeup or a dress.

A missing Coromandel man who failed to return from an overnight hunting trip was located on Thursday evening down the bottom of a bluff near his home.

Stephen Dickson carries ferrets down the front of his jersey when he is out rabbiting in Wanaka. He uses ferrets as an alternative to shooting and poisoning rabbits in rural areas. Source: Otago Daily Times/Youtube

The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council has reminded hunters about firearm safety after two hunting tragedies last month.

A hunter who was reported missing in the Coromandel State Forest Park, near Hikutaia, has been found.

A visiting hunter from the United States had a cold night in the Paringa bush during a sleety south-westerly storm yesterday after he dislocated his shoulder in a 40m fall down a rock shoot.

More details have emerged about a boating tragedy on the Waikato River that left one man dead and his three mates clinging to trees after their runabout capsized yesterday.

A pig hunter is in a critical condition after being accidentally shot in the back in the NSW south west slopes region.

Police said they arrested an Invercargill man in relation to the fatal shooting of Samuel Phillip Long on March 23.

The school attended by a teenage boy who shot himself in a tragic hunting accident will close on Thursday as a mark of respect.

Jamie Johnston never got the chance to give his mother Ginny her Mother's Day present after a duck hunting trip went horribly wrong.

The number of young Kiwi duck hunters has increased by more than 70 per cent in the past 14 years. Duck shooting season kicks off tomorrow, with most regions reporting healthy numbers of ducks....

The wife of missing Dunedin hunter Murray Edge is losing hope, saying 'it's a bloody good way for him to go.'

A young man shot in the back in a hunting accident was luckily bending down emptying stones from his boots when his mate fired the bullet.

A wounded hunter has described the moment he was accidentally shot by a friend - a feeling he likened to having a “hot, sharp metal rod” smashed across his back.

Some take part in a competition to kill as many rabbits as possible. Animal expert Sally Hibbard questions the 24th Annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt.

Hunters are being urged to give ducks a fighting chance of surviving the annual season which starts in four weeks.

The young Invercargill man shot dead on Stewart Island had helped build a hunters' hut on the island with his father and been on the local deerstalkers association's executive.

Police have released the name of a young hunter shot dead on Stewart Island yesterday.