Extinction

A new book presents a comprehensive analysis of New Zealand's biodiversity loss and the drivers behind it Audio

A new study shows that yellow-eyed penguins colonised New Zealand within just a few decades of the Waitaha penguin becoming extinct Audio

Research from Otago University has revealed new information on a phenomena called a 'biological transition event'. That's where one species replaces another. In this case the animal in question is the… Audio

It's been a source of ongoing debate in New Zealand - just when, and how, did the moa go extinct? Scientists at the University of Auckland have found the large birds died out just 200 years after… Audio

Kennedy Warne with a cautionary tale about extinct birds. Audio

American author, and staff writer for The New Yorker, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Audio

Scientists have shown the moa survived major climate change - only to be forced to extinction by the arrival of humans. Audio

What did we do to the moa? Just how much did humans contribute to the big bird's demise? Those are the questions researchers hope to answer with a new study. Otago University anthropologist Chris… Audio

Moa specialist Richard Holdaway investigates whether moa populations were heathy or declining before the arrival of people. Audio

Palaeo-biologists have studied the largest collections of moa bones to pinpoint the cause and timing of the moa's extinction. Audio

Self-taught naturalist seeking proof that extinct animals like the moa and Tasmanian tiger are still around. Audio