Last week we reviewed how we had spent last year's donations and the feature that had benefited from the extra spend. Other subscribers were spurred into action, and donations flooded in—some small ...

Haining Street, the heart of Wellington’s “Chinese quarters”, was frequently inspected by James Doyle. He became a de facto defendant of the city’s Chinese community in his dismissal of rumours and ...

This time last year, we were approached by a number of readers who had a subscription but wanted to do more to help.

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

If you ever been to a zoo in New Zealand you’ll know that there’s something missing in the reptile habitats – snakes. That’s because the animals are banned entirely from the country for fear they’ll ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...

Australian miner Oceana Gold has come in for high praise from the Department of Conservation for its restoration work at the former Globe Progress goldmine near Reefton. Oceana ceased mining in 2016 ...

The Auckland Council has started its 1080 drop in the Hunua Ranges after an interim injunction imposed by the Environment Court lapsed. The council was given the go ahead to drop the poison after the ...

A milestone in efforts to increase the number of kōkako has been celebrated under the cover of darkness. From a population of just 300 breeding pairs in the late ’90s, the North Island kōkako now ...

A group in Nelson are creating a micro forest. Colin Davis and AJ Clarken decided to embark on the Nelson Whakatu Microforest Initiative after hearing about the micro forest movement spreading around ...