Stories by Farah Hancock
Audio and features
The fight for the white sands of Pākiri
Why Pākiri locals fear the Government’s Fast Track Bill could steal away hard-won protection of their pristine coastline.
Aotearoa's vanishing species: Flora, fungi and funding
If you're a threatened species does being cute help you get funding to improve your odds of survival? Spoiler: fungi don't do well.
Aotearoa's vanishing species: Creatures great and small
Our goal is to stop human-induced extinctions by 2025. But a lot of our creatures are at the very edge of a future where they're only seen on souvenir postcards, tea towels and coasters.
The dirty truth about the Waikato River
New Zealand's longest river is a mess of contaminants. There's a plan to save it, but it will take 80 years. Can't we do better?
The streets have eyes
Million of dollars of ratepayers’ money has been spent installing and running CCTV systems, but do eyes in our streets actually make us safer? Farah Hancock reports
Licence to Kill: The startling truth about NZ's fatal police shootings
New Zealand police are fatally shooting people at 11 times the rate of officers in England and Wales. Who are they killing and are they justified?