The search is on for the people who shaved a family cat in Christchurch and marked a swastika on its back.

Chickens are increasingly common in suburban gardens but many owners are unaware of the potential dangers of their pets.

Fourteen rare Okarito rowi kiwi have been taken to vets in the North Island with sore bottoms.

A Christchurch wildlife park is in mourning after a much-loved ostrich died in Tuesday's storm.

One hundred grey shark fins, and one orange fin, are floating in Wellington harbour today to mark the final day of shark awareness week.

It's the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whooping call.

An 84-year-old man has been killed near Paris after an elephant belonging to a local circus escaped from its pen and hit him with its trunk.

Our neighbours have two large dogs on their well-fenced urban property. We have two problems with them.

Conservation groups say a new government proposal to help the world's rarest marine dolphin, Maui's dolphin, is inadequate and will not save the species from extinction.

Black labrador puppy Amani will have a tough job keeping up with his foster brothers - cheetah cubs Winspear and Kamau.

Conservation Week has launched today with a proposal for a new conservation park on Great Barrier Island and a pest eradication programme on Rakitu Island in the Hauraki Gulf.

Three apes startled hundreds of visitors to a Christchurch wildlife park yesterday when they escaped from their enclosure.

Dionne Christian explores how we can help our natural wonderlands for Conservation Week.

Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo is reporting the first live birth of an elephant through artificial insemination using frozen sperm.

A Gisborne man has been jailed for trying to set his dog on police, yelling "sic him" as the animal charged a constable.

News coverage of a New Zealand man who survived stranded on a remote Australian island was the first his Wellington family had heard of him in nearly 20 years.

A group of former All Blacks have beaten a team of Thai ladyboys in an elephant polo match.

They're little, they're fluffy and, for the first time, they're all ours.

A Vietnamese air passenger has been charged with smuggling live tropical fish in his trouser pockets after airport staff noticed water dripping down the man's leg.