Conservation

Rachel Yerbury-Wilson says despite officials' warnings, she would do it again.

Freshwater anglers are being asked to keep an eye out for pest species after a grass carp was caught in an Otago lake.

Four-wheel-drive enthusiasts are being urged to stick to formed roads and take care when driving after several popular historic Queenstown areas were damaged.

A Department of Conservation ranger is heartbroken people are flouting the rules by driving their cars at the Waikanae estuary scientific reserve.

A lucky female tawaki/Fiordland crested penguin has been returned to the wild off the West Coast this week after a scrape with danger

Swiss pair have bikes confiscated and fined after tearing through one of New Zealand's 'sacred landscapes'.

Microscopic algae lindavia and didymo have been found in the national park's lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa, and in Lake Tennyson.

A gull found stuck in a George St grate may have exposed a design flaw in Dunedin's infrastructure.

A criminal syndicate that planned to illegally export hundreds of native lizards from Australia to Hong Kong has been "dismantled", authorities say.

Suspected case of H5N1 in Antractica after disease tears path of devastation through South America.

The Hochstetter's frog is suffering through a dry summer and could disappear over the next several decades.

Greater Wellington wants government funding for a sanctuary on 3000 hectares of native bush.

There are only around 40 individual tara iti left and a handful of breeding pairs.

Two scientists are camped out on a remote island far south of New Zealand on the hunt for what's killing off the native albatrosses that breed there.