The police and SPCA have carried out a search of a Raglan property as part of an investigation into how the bodies of two cats ended up dead in rubbish bags.

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Department of Conservation staff are trying to work out how an endangered South Island kiwi came to be found dead in a North Island town.

Bro the Fiordland crested penguin is on his way home after being found eight months ago suffering an injury to his left leg on a beach in Australia.

A random act of kindness turned into a nightmare for a woman who had stopped to help a cat she had almost run over.

Courageous Kiwis put their bodies on the line going after quarry including wild pigs, stags and great whites. But in this country no form of hunting or fishing could possibly match the dangers faced long ago by sealers.

The Government will bring forward a total ban on the finning of dead sharks by two years in response to widespread public concern about the gruesome practice.

Environmentalists say trees that will support a new zipline tourism attraction on the Sunshine Coast are koala habitats.

Cats are cuter than babies and dogs when it comes to the popularity of videos, new research shows.

We take a look at balut and some other controversial food items to see if we should really be concerned.

The last remaining 55 of world's rarest species of dolphins could disappear within three decades if New Zealand doesn't act now, wildlife advocates say.

Thousands of sheep in Australia are believed to have died after eating a poisonous plant that makes them “bash their heads on posts and rocks until they crack open”.

Police had to be called after an Ashmore presented its owner with a 5g bag of cannabis.

Calls are being made to remove dissections from first-year courses as the killing of animals at universities comes under fresh scrutiny.

Eighty native birds have been caught on Little Barrier Island and delivered to a new wildlife reserve in the Hauraki Gulf.

here are clearly a lot of arachnophobes. But do they know why they fear spiders? Can they do something to control those fears?

An Auckland restaurant serving duck eggs with developing embryo has been cleared by the SPCA for possible cruelty against unhatched ducklings.

Scientists have discovered a pre-historic mainland species of sea lion thought to have been wiped out by Polynesian settlers and replaced by the modern NZ sea lion.

A new study has put even more genetic distance between the extinct moa and their old bush mates, the kiwi, but found similarities with a South American bird.

In NZ animals are afforded basic rights - including freedom and suffering. Except the 3 million made to take part in experiments, writes Sally Hibbard.

A band of foreign snakes that are said to be capable of crushing small children to death are on the loose in North London.

A critically ill baby kakapo has been nursed back to health at Auckland Zoo. "Heather One", one of only six kakapo bred this season, was 10 days old and severely underweight when she was found on Little Barrier Island in late March.

A Whangarei man was sent for the barbaric torture of at least 10 possums, including nailing them to trees and chopping off their limbs.

A dog has killed a male kiwi that was living in the wild just north of Wellington.