Video recordings capture the first wild-raised kākāriki chicks in the Bay of Islands in about 50 years. / Supplied by Project Island Song

The SPCA needs donations to address horrific cases of animal abuse in NZ.

It was truly bird-mania at the end of last year in New Zealand

As the country sweats through a humid, hot summer

When his teacher's dog was put down, this nine-year-old wrote her a sweet poem.

Starving and half blind, life was grim for Frodo. This is his transformation.

Oscar, Coronet Peak’s unofficial mascot, helps the team with avalanche testing after the Queenstown ski field received almost 15cm of snow at the base building with more higher up as, thanks to cyclone Gita. Source: Coronet Peak

Thomas endured the new relationship of Henrietta and Henry with admirable grace.

World's first human-sheep hybrids pave way cure for diabetes and mass organ transplants.

Greenpeace NZ climate campaigner Kate Simcock talks about Janet, the seventeen foot inflatable whale at Mission Bay on Saturday. / Video by Greg Bowker

What happened when Aussie zoos challenged Kiwis to a punny challenge for Valentine's.

The little pony has a taste for royalty: it nibbled the Queen's posy on another occasion.

Last month, infamous internet mogul and controversial figure....

COMMENT: When an abandoned kitty was found, what could the writer do?

Pebbles the hamster was sent to a watery grave so that her owner could board a flight.

Why Pebbles the hamster met an untimely death in an airport toilet.

Anxiety Girl, aka Roxy, shows off her quirks. / Jeannie Short

Animal care manager Jo Richardson talks about introducing the capybara for breeding.

'I felt very betrayed that I trusted her with my dog and paid for a service.'

Black lab Abby ran away in 2008, but her microchip led her back to her family.

The viral video circling the internet of a rat taking a shower is not actually a rat.

Coces Vehreschild talks about some of the animals at Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary near Otaki.

The stowaway bird took refuge on a ship and is now enjoying five-star care.

An entire suburb's undies were regularly going missing - now the culprit's been outed.

The hilarious sign was left in a dog park in the UK.

The baby's arrival makes Auckland zoo the second in Australasia to breed the species.

Zoo Keeper, Hayley Paul, helps the emus at Auckland Zoo keep cool with a shower. / Michael Craig

Boaties had an incredibly close encounter with orca at Ponui Island near Waiheke. Credit: Jitske Braaksma

Don McFarlane, Team Leader Ectotherms Auckland Zoo, has some exciting news. In a first for New Zealand, Auckland Zoo is celebrating the arrival of a Galapagos tortoise hatchling, and has become only the second zoo in Australasia to breed this species. / Michael Craig

For the first time in NZ, hundreds of Japan’s Honshu white admiral butterflies have been successfully reared as a biocontrol agent for Japanese honeysuckle. Credit: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research