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Kakapo eggs found on Hauturu
There has been some excitement for Department of Conservation staff trying to save endangered kakapo.

Lemur extinction warning
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.

Giant squid seen as an 'omen'
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.

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

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

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

Top dog is fashionably flash
Just like his famous fashion-designer namesake, Giorgio sparkled.

Design: Straight from the horse's mouth (+gallery)
Ben Crawford meets one of his childhood heroes.

Dog owner 'lost interest' in starved pet
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.

Rare Orca stranding in NZ
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.

Yellow-eyed penguins forage in trawlers' wake
New Zealand's endangered yellow-eyed penguin have been found to follow the line of swooping seabirds - literally - when it comes to reaping the food stirred up by trawlers.

Reserves take battle to poachers
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.

Sochi: Stray dogs 'saved by Russian billionaire'
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.

Royals mobilise help for wildlife
The world has a real chance this week to halt the soaring slaughter of African elephants.

Bitten surfer vows to get back in sea
'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.

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

Consumer Watch: Basic insurance best for pets
Pet owners are paying hundreds of dollars every year for insurance to ward off expensive vet bills.

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

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

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

Twins a first at Auckland Zoo
Auckland Zoo has bred and reared lesser short-tailed bat twins - the first time the threatened New Zealand species has been bred and hand-reared in a zoo.

Monster jellyfish stuns scientists
'Wow, this guy's a whopper,' said experts of a 1.5m monster jellyfish that washed up on a Hobart beach last month. So what does its sting feel like?

Kiwi's key to ancient seas
Research by an Otago University geology student has uncovered a strange pre-Ice Age world where primitive porpoises and baleen whales roamed the North Pacific alongside comparatively modern marine mammals.

Killer horse virus source likely to remain mystery
The Ministry for Primary Industries says it may never know the origin of a neurological strain of equine herpes which has so far killed seven thoroughbred horses.