There is nowhere for golf balls to hide at a Dunedin golf course. A seeing eye dog called Bossdin has taken on a search and rescue role at Chisholm Park Golf Links for scratch golfers and handicapped hackers alike.

More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad" after months of being underfed, a court has been told.

Samuel John Townhill, 39, pleaded guilty in Ashburton District Court yesterday to two charges of destroying the nests of black-billed gulls laid under the Wildlife Act.

Today, more than 70 billion animals are raised and killed for food worldwide annually, the majority in factory farms.

Pressure should be put on any zoo not up to standard, but a zoo like Auckland's needs to be acknowledged for its great work with Burma, writes Shar Carlin.

Orana Wildlife Park vets have today made the "agonising decision'' to put down three newborn cheetah cubs who were abandoned by their mother at birth.

A Canterbury lifestyle block owner is facing animal welfare charges after allegedly beating four pigs with an iron bar.

The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers responsible for protecting them.

South Dunedin cat owners are being warned to keep their pets indoors as police investigate an alleged feline serial killer stalking the suburb.

Eight tennis players surrounded a woman and a poodle and fought off a bull terrier that was attacking them in Christchurch at the weekend.

Environmentalists hailed a "victory for bees" after the European Union voted for a ban on the nerve-agent pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline in global bee populations.

Dog mess: to most of the population it is a bio-hazard about as welcome and useful as syphilis.

Many believe that Burma's needs would be better served by retiring her from Auckland Zoo to a sanctuary overseas, writes Dr Cathy Casey. I do too.

The Department of Conservation (DoC) is on the look-out again for migrating southern right whales and it wants your help.

A couple are planning to move after someone kicked their much-loved pet cat so hard his abdominal wall split open.

A year ago the koala, Australia's iconic marsupial, was officially listed as a threatened species in large parts of the country after two decades of devastating population losses.

Before NZ's Parliament had even finished the last line of Pokarekare Ana after passing the Marriage Equality Bill, my inbox started to blink with missives from friends back in Australia.

Worried about shark attacks off the pristine beaches in Australia's tropical north?

Female seahorses have got this pregnancy caper worked out. They place their eggs, sometimes hundreds or thousands, into a special pouch in the male's stomach and let him do all the hard work while they go about their business unencumbered by kids.