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.

The more visitors within a five-metre radius of the koalas, the more vigilance behaviour koalas displayed, which puts them in an alert state.

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.

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.

A Hawkes Bay farmer was ordered to pay $7000 to the SPCA and $529 in reparation following one of the worst cases of neglect an SPCA inspector said he had seen.

The cat population at Auckland SPCA has reached critical levels and families willing to adopt pets are urgently needed.

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?

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.

Experts have flown in from all over the world. Samples have been taken. And now the waiting begins... Will Tian Tian, Edinburgh Zoo's giant panda, deliver?

An extremely rare female deep-water megamouth shark has been caught off the coast of Shizuoka in Japan, in what is believed to be only the 58th known sighting of the animal on record.

A man who filmed himself nailing a possum to a tree has been sentenced to prison.