A man charged with dangerous driving in relation to the death of a pet dog on Haumoana Beach has pleaded not guilty.

A flock of 500 sheep has been found smothered to death in a narrow gully on a Southland farm.

Seals, moles, hedgehogs, badgers, mice, earthworms, insects and seabirds are among the unseen casualties of the British floods, storms and torrential rains of the past few weeks.

Ben Crawford says choose your colours from your artwork.

There has been some excitement for Department of Conservation staff trying to save endangered kakapo.

Lemurs could "very soon" be extinct, some of the world's leading experts on the primates warned as they unveiled a three-year plan to save them, this week.

An increase in the number of giant squid being caught along the Sea of Japan coast is leading fisherman to fear it may be some kind of omen.

A group of penguin chicks have taken their first swimming lessons at Auckland's Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium.

One of the most "disastrous breeding seasons" in recent years has hit endangered yellow-eyed penguin colonies along Otago's coast.

Marius the giraffe is dead, killed last week in Copenhagen Zoo and then dismembered and fed to lions in front of a crowd of parents and children.

A man has survived being mauled by a pair of white Bengal tigers in a Chinese zoo after he jumped into their enclosure with a bag of rice because he "wanted to feed the animals".

A three-year-old girl has been air-lifted to hospital after being bitten on the back of her head by a farm dog.

Just like his famous fashion-designer namesake, Giorgio sparkled.

Ben Crawford meets one of his childhood heroes.

A man who almost starved his dog to death because he had "lost interest" in the pet, has been banned from owning animals for five years.

The stranding of nine orca in Southland is only the third such mass stranding of the species recorded in New Zealand, a specialist researcher says.

With only a couple of squeezes of his trigger finger, the two white rhino would be dead and their horns worth more than gold would be his, making him a very rich man.

Condemned to death at the hands of a private extermination company, around 150 of the stray dogs from Sochi's Olympic Park have been saved after the intervention of a Russian billionaire.

A Japanese whaling ship is reported to have tailed an anti-whaling ship into waters off Otago against the wishes of the NZ Govt, which labelled the move 'disrespectful'.

The world has a real chance this week to halt the soaring slaughter of African elephants.

'When it first happened I was like, I'm not even getting in the bathtub again.' But surfer Darren Mills has changed his mind, after his shark encounter.

The Government should strongly censure Japan after one of its whaling vessels entered New Zealand's waters, the Green Party says.

Pet owners are paying hundreds of dollars every year for insurance to ward off expensive vet bills.

Dramatic details of surfer Darren Mills' lucky escape from a shark attack emerged yesterday, as the British immigrant began his recovery from serious injuries.

After weeks of rain and wind in England, miserable penguins at a marine centre are being fed anti-depressants to cheer them up.

Danielle Wright has a close encounter with the South American cotton-top tamarin monkeys at the Auckland Zoo.