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?

An online campaign raising money to catch a Whangarei cat killer looks likely to surpass its $2000 target.

They're now more than 4 months old but three Nepalese panda cubs at Hamilton Zoo are still without names.

Larger than normal rats - some the size of kittens - are being reported following a long dry spell that has caused a population boom.

Thousands of birds perished in the black tide that followed the MV Rena's grounding. A year and a half on, we check on the recovery of the disaster's forgotten victims.

Nakuru the giraffe spent nearly six days in a box as she crossed the Tasman by sea to find her new home in Melbourne.

A Taranaki sharemilker says an outbreak of facial eczema is hitting cows hard and fast.

For a group of young people on a night out in Napier last weekend a 14-week-old kitten was the perfect target for violence.

It has been 50 years since Northland brown kiwi could be heard foraging on the forest floor of the Brynderwyn Hills, crying to one another at dusk and dawn.

Franklin Zoo keeper Helen Schofield failed to follow her own safety guidelines on the day she was killed by an elephant in its enclosure, a coroner has found.

A man has been kicked by a calf while trying to help it and the blow sent a 55-year-old man tumbling 10 metres down a bank.

Pet owners are being warned that identity microchips in their precious animals may be faulty after flaws were detected in more than 1,000 chips.